Cosmological constant and asymmetric orbifolds
- 7 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 60 (10) , 882-884
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.60.882
Abstract
We propose and study a compactification of the heterotic string on an asymmetric orbifold that leads to a zero cosmological constant in four dimensions even when 〈W〉≠0.Keywords
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