2002/12/09 by Auttakit Chattaraputi, Francois Englert, F. Englert +2
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Boson #Bosonic string theory #Circumstantial evidence #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Fermion #Hilbert space #Linear subspace #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Non-critical string theory #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum #Quantum gravity #Quantum mechanics #Relationship between string theory and quantum field theory #String (physics) #String cosmology #String field theory #String theory #Theoretical physics #Truncation (statistics) #Type I string theory #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217751x04020348
published as Class.Quant.Grav.20:S449-S456,2003; Int.J.Mod.Phys.A19S2:117-125,2004 · LaTeX,9 pages, 1 figure, uses IOP style files. Proceedings of the Leuven RTN-Workshop, Belgium, September 2002 and of the International Conference on Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Systems, Chernogolovka, Russia, September 2002. Based on hep-th/0207238
arxiv created 2002/12/09 · openalex publication_date 2004/05/01 · arxiv updated 2010/04/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A universal symmetric truncation of the bosonic string Hilbert space yields all known closed fermionic string theories in ten dimensions, their D-branes and their open descendants. We highlight the crucial role played by group theory and two-dimensional conformal field theory in the construction and emphasize the predictive power of the truncation. Such circumstantial evidence points towards the existence of a mechanism which generates space-time fermions out of bosons dynamically within the framework of bosonic string theory.