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We consider the string theory origin of R-charge conservation laws in heterotic orbifold compactifications, deriving the corresponding string coupling selection rule for factorizable and non-factorizable orbifolds, with prime ordered and non-prime ordered point groups. R-charge conservation arises due to symmetries among the worldsheet instantons that can mediate the couplings. Among our results is a previously missed non-trivial contribution to the conserved R-charges from the gamma-phases in non-prime orbifolds, which weakens the R-charge selection rule. Symmetries among the worldsheet instantons can also lead to additional selection rules for some couplings. We make a similar analysis for Rule 4 or the "torus lattice selection rule". Moreover, we identify a new string selection rule, that we call Rule 6 or the "coset vector selection rule".
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License of this version: | CC BY 4.0 Unported - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Publication type: | Article |
Publishing status: | publishedVersion |
Publication date: | 2013 |
Keywords english: | Superstrings and Heterotic Strings, Conformal Field Models in String Theory, String Field Theory, grand unified theories, yukawa couplings, zn orbifolds, background symmetries, degenerate orbifolds, mini-landscape, z(n) orbifolds, standard model, string models, z(6) orbifold |
DDC: | 530 | Physik |
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