Charting the landscape of supercritical string theory

Details Charting the landscape of supercritical string theory Charting the landscape of supercritical string theory

2007-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/0705.0980v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.99:171601,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

27 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.171601

Special solutions of string theory in supercritical dimensions can interpolate in time between theories with different numbers of spacetime dimensions (via dimension quenching) and different amounts of worldsheet supersymmetry (via c-duality). These solutions connect supercritical string theories to the more familiar string duality web in ten dimensions, and provide a precise link between supersymmetric and purely bosonic string theories. Dimension quenching and c-duality appear to be natural concepts in string theory, giving rise to large networks of interconnected theories. We describe some of these networks in detail and discuss general consistency constraints on the types of transitions that arise in this framework.

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