Statistics on the heterotic landscape: Gauge groups and cosmological constants of four-dimensional heterotic strings
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Statistics on the Heterotic Landscape: Gauge Groups and Cosmological Constants of Four-Dimensional Heterotic Strings
Recent developments in string theory have reinforced the notion that the space of stable supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric string vacua fills out a “landscape” whose features are largely unknown. It is then hoped that progress in extracting phenomenological predictions from string theory — such as correlations between gauge groups, matter representations, potential values of the cosmologica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review D
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1550-7998,1550-2368
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.73.106010