On the worldsheet formulation of the six-dimensional self-dual string

1996/07/24 by Philip C. Argyres, Keith R. Dienes · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)01092-1

published as Phys.Lett. B387 (1996) 727-734 · 12 pages, LaTeX, no figures

arxiv created 1996/07/24 · openalex publication_date 1996/10/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Despite recent evidence indicating the existence of a new kind of self-dual six-dimensional superstring, no satisfactory worldsheet formulation of such a string has been proposed. In this note we point out that a theory built from Z₄ parafermions may have the right properties to describe the light-cone conformal field theory of this string. This indicates a possible worldsheet formulation of this theory.

Citations

• Model-building for fractional superstrings
• Heterotic parafermionic superstring
• Low-lying states of the six-dimensional fractional superstring

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