Vacuum energy cancellation in a nonsupersymmetric string
- 21 April 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 59 (10) , 106004
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.59.106004
Abstract
We present a nonsupersymmetric orbifold of type II string theory and show that it has a vanishing cosmological constant at the one and two loop levels. We argue heuristically that the cancellation may persist at higher loops.Keywords
All Related Versions
This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
- String duality and nonsupersymmetric stringsPhysical Review D, 1998
- 4D Conformal Field Theories and Strings on OrbifoldsPhysical Review Letters, 1998
- Gauge theory correlators from non-critical string theoryPhysics Letters B, 1998
- On covariant multi-loop superstring amplitudesNuclear Physics B, 1990
- On the vanishing of multiloop contributions to the 0-, 1-, 2-, 3-point functions in the Green-Schwarz formalism for the heterotic stringsPhysics Letters B, 1988
- Modular invariance for interacting bosonic strings at finite temperatureCommunications in Mathematical Physics, 1987
- Global anomalies on orbifoldsCommunications in Mathematical Physics, 1987
- Nonrenormalization theorems and fermionic string finitenessPhysics Letters B, 1986
- Evaluation of the one loop string path integralCommunications in Mathematical Physics, 1986
- Theta functions, modular invariance, and stringsCommunications in Mathematical Physics, 1986