Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-11-03
Phys.Lett. B398 (1997) 88-94
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
15 pages. Standard Latex. Final version to be published in Physics Letters B. References updated
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00198-6
Discrete and global symmetries play an essential role in many extensions of the Standard Model, for example, to preserve the proton lifetime, to prevent flavor changing neutral currents, etc. An important question is how can such symmetries survive in a theory of quantum gravity, like superstring theory. In a specific string model I illustrate how local discrete symmetries may arise in string models and play an important role in preventing fast proton decay and flavor changing neutral currents. The local discrete symmetry arises due to the breaking of the non--Abelian gauge symmetries by Wilson lines in the superstring models and forbids, for example dimension five operators which mediate rapid proton decay, to all orders of nonrenormalizable terms. In the context of models of unification of the gauge and gravitational interactions, it is precisely this type of local discrete symmetries that must be found in order to insure that a given model is not in conflict with experimental observations.
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