Lecture 23 Lecture 23 - Topics Closed Strings Heterotic String Theory , anticomm ~ ' ( 7 - 0) (Grassmann odd), 2D fermion (in worldsheet) Creation operations: NS sector, bi,, R sector: d i n Fermionic Oscillators d i : 8 0-Modes. 4 creation operators, 4 annihilation operators. With 4 creation operators, ,c2 ,c4 can create full set of vacua. Start with R vacuum 10). Act on it with the creation operators. ,c3 Introduce Fermion Number = F, operator: If F odd, then state fermionic (-). If F even, then state bosonic (+). Lecture 23 Truncated NS sector: (NS+). Just keep the states with ( - I ) ~= +l. Massless states and states with M~ E 2. Closed String Tensor product of state spaces of open of left and open of right. How to build a closed string field? I I Open bosonic string Open superstring Open bosonic string Open superstring Ways to combine: 1. Could take all states of left NS and combine with all states of right NS: (NS7NS)sector of closed superstrings 2. (NS,R) sector of closed superstrings 3. (R,NS) sector of closed superstrings 4. (R7R)sector of closed superstrings (1) gives us spacetime bosons. (2) and (3) gives us spacetime fermions. (4) gives us spacetime bosons (very complicated). Actually, 2 different ways of forming this string theory. Choose R7swith same sign or choose R's of different signs. 10-dimensional superstring theories. We believe are really two manifestations of the same theory. (NS+,NS+): Throw away -'s of NS sector on both left and right. Reasonable -J projection of NS sector: (NS+,NS+) eg: b~,12b-l12 INS), 63 INS), 63 I P + , PT) Lecture 23 (lowest allowable state) Universal bosons of string theory. 64 states, traceless. Gives massless states. 35 states for a 10-dim graviton. 28 states for Kalb Raman. 1 dilitant. Type IIB: -I (NS+, R+) -+ b-,,, INS), @ I RzR gives 64 fermions, plus an additional 64 from ) 64 ~ bosons. (R+, NS+) giving 128 fermions. (R+, R+) + IRK)8 R ~ gives I (R, R): IIA: A, (DO-brane), Apvp (D2-brane) + 64 IIB: A (D7-brane, magnetically charged object), A,, (Dl-brane), brane, self - dual, spacef illing) (D3 - So we often use the D3-brane of type IIB since it is space filling. Heterotic String Theory Open Bosonic String: 8, X I = a;, xA=l ,...,6. Don't have a:. with 10 dimensions. Sort of enough to make a string theory Open Superstring: "E8 x Egn, 16, 1984: Know this has something to do with string theory since 16 10 = 26 + 5 types of 10-dim. supersymm. string theories: 1. Type IIA 2. Type IIB 3. E8 x E8 heterotic Lecture 23 4. So(32) heterotic 5. Type I (open string, 32 = 2 D / 2 coincident, D-branes and orientation projections) Interesting relations between them. Maybe these 5 are corners of one theory. IIA Het E, x E, H (321 1. In early 1980s, bothersome. 5 theories of everything? Now we think it's really all 1. 2. Also have another theory, M-theory, with 2- and 5-branes proportional to parallel dimensions but no strings. 3. Want: lovely formulation like Einstein's equations. Currently don't have them.

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