Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1995-08-15
Nucl.Phys.B461:131-154,1996
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
28 pages, harvmac. Minor changes, final version to appear in NPB
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(95)00629-X
Superstring models describing curved 4-dimensional magnetic flux tube backgrounds are exactly solvable in terms of free fields. We first consider the simplest model of this type (corresponding to `Kaluza-Klein' Melvin background). Its 2d action has a flat but topologically non-trivial 10-dimensional target space (there is a mixing of angular coordinate of the 2-plane with an internal compact coordinate). We demonstrate that this theory has broken supersymmetry but is perturbatively stable if the radius R of the internal coordinate is larger than R_0=\sqrt{2\a'}. In the Green-Schwarz formulation the supersymmetry breaking is a consequence of the presence of a flat but non-trivial connection in the fermionic terms in the action. For R < R_0 and the magnetic field strength parameter q > R/2\a' there appear instabilities corresponding to tachyonic winding states. The torus partition function Z(q,R) is finite for R > R_0 (and vanishes for qR=2n, n=integer). At the special points qR=2n (2n+1) the model is equivalent to the free superstring theory compactified on a circle with periodic (antiperiodic) boundary condition for space-time fermions. Analogous results are obtained for a more general class of static magnetic flux tube geometries including the a=1 Melvin model.
Russo Jorge G.
Tseytlin Arkady A.
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