2000/02/17 by Ralph Blumenhagen, Blumenhagen, Ralph, Lars Goerlich +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0002146
8 pages, Latex, 2 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the TMR network conference in Paris 1999, ref. added
arxiv created 2000/02/18 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We describe a new class of supersymmetric orientifolds which combine the world-sheet parity transformation with a complex conjugation in the compact directions. As an example, we investigate in detail the orientifold of the Z3 toroidal orbifold in six and four dimensions. We demonstrate how the solution to the tadpole cancellation conditions, the resulting gauge groups and the massless spectra depend on the choice of the complex structures on the tori, giving rise to a variety of inequivalent models. We also summarize the results for the orientifolds of the Z4, Z6 and Z6' orbifolds in four and six dimensions.