Coordinate-dependent compactifications and discrete symmetries
Abstract
We show how coordinate-dependent compactifications provide a generalization of the continuous deformations of free-field vacua of superstrings to extra, discrete ones. These correspond to spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries, and also have applications to spontaneous supersymmetry breaking, for which we give a general, model-independent discussion, and a number of examples. A particular type of these discrete deformations turns out to be adequate to the study of the finite-temperature statistics of any superstring model, for which we give a simple, explicit and practical prescription.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- September 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0550-3213(90)90543-M
- Bibcode:
- 1990NuPhB.341..641K