Charting the Landscape of Supercritical String Theory
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Charting the landscape of supercritical string theory.
Special solutions of string theory in supercritical dimensions can interpolate in time between theories with different numbers of spacetime dimensions and different amounts of world sheet supersymmetry. 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 theori...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.171601