Spin-Statistics Violations from Heterotic String Worldsheet Instantons

dc.creatorJackson, Mark G.
dc.date2008-03-31
dc.date2008-07-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:49:29Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:49:29Z
dc.descriptionIn this paper we consider the role that worldsheet instantons in the heterotic string could play in spin-statistics violations. Such violations are nonperturbative in the string tension and so would not appear in the spacetime effective action, producing a unique signature of string theory and the details of compactification. By performing a Bogomol'nyi transformation it is shown that there are no instanton solutions in the simplest model proposed by Harvey and Liu, but it is conjectured that more sophisticated models may yield solutions. If such instantons do exist, their effect might be measured by upcoming experiments.
dc.description4 pages, 2 figures; v2: references added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4472
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4472
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D77:127901,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.127901
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/203249
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleSpin-Statistics Violations from Heterotic String Worldsheet Instantons
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