Chiral Non-Critical Strings
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It is shown that conformal matter with $c_{\ssc L}\not=c_{\ssc R}$ can be consistently coupled to two-dimensional `frame' gravity. The theory is quantized in conformal gauge, following David, and Distler and Kawai. There is no analogue of the $c=1$ barrier found in nonchiral non-critical strings. A non-critical heterotic string is constructed---it has 744 states in its spectrum, transforming in the adjoint representation of $(E_8)^3.$ Correlation functions are calculated in this example, revealing the existence of extra discrete states.
13 pages (LaTeX) ( Talk reviews material in hep-th/9207117, and also gives new results on correlation functions. )
13 pages (LaTeX) ( Talk reviews material in hep-th/9207117, and also gives new results on correlation functions. )