Orientation Orbifolds Include Orientifolds

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  • M. B. Halpern
چکیده

In this fourth paper of the series, I clarify the somewhat mysterious relation between the large class of orientation orbifolds (with twisted open-string CFT’s at ĉ = 52) and orientifolds (with untwisted open strings at c = 26), both of which have been associated to division by world-sheet orientation-reversing automorphisms. In particular – following a spectral clue in the previous paper – I show that, even as an interacting string system, a certain half-integer-moded orientation orbifold-string system is in fact equivalent to the archetypal orientifold. The subtitle of this paper, that orientation orbifolds include and generalize standard orientifolds, then follows because there are many other orientation orbifold-string systems – with higher fractional modeing – which are not equivalent to untwisted string systems. ∗[email protected]

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تاریخ انتشار 2008