SELF-DUALITY AND VACUUM SELECTION
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Self–Duality and Vacuum Selection
I propose that self–duality in quantum phase–space provides the criteria for the selection of the quantum gravity vacuum. The evidence for this assertion arises from two independent considerations. The first is the phenomenological success of the free fermionic heterotic–string models, which are constructed in the vicinity of the self–dual point under T–duality. The relation between the free fe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Modern Physics A
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0217-751X,1793-656X
DOI: 10.1142/s0217751x04021068