The Bosonic Ancestor of Closed and Open Fermionic Strings
| dc.creator | Englert, Francois | |
| dc.creator | Houart, Laurent | |
| dc.creator | Taormina, Anne | |
| dc.date | 2002-03-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:13:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:13:13Z | |
| dc.description | We review the emergence of the ten-dimensional fermionic closed string theories from subspaces of the Hilbert space of the 26-dimensional bosonic closed string theory compactified on an $E_8\times SO(16)$ lattice. They arise from a consistent truncation procedure which generates space-time fermions out of bosons. This procedure is extended to open string sectors. We prove, from bosonic considerations alone, that truncation of the unique tadpole-free $SO(2^{13})$ bosonic string theory compactified on the above lattice determines the anomaly free Chan-Paton group of the Type I theory. It also yields the Chan-Paton groups making Type O theories tadpole-free. These results establish a link between all M-theory strings and the bosonic string within the framework of conformal field theory. Its significance is discussed. | |
| dc.description | LaTeX files, 16 pages. Contribution to the Francqui meeting, Brussels 2001 and Corfu Summer Institute 2001. Based on hep-th/0106235 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203098 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203098 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/51180 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | The Bosonic Ancestor of Closed and Open Fermionic Strings | |
| dc.type | text |