Topological superconductors on superstring worldsheets
We point out that different choices of Gliozzi-Scherk-Olive (GSO) projections in superstring theory can be conveniently understood by the inclusion of fermionic invertible phases, or equivalently topological superconductors, on the worldsheet. This allows us to find that the unoriented Type $\rm 0$...
Main Author: | Justin Kaidi, Julio Parra-Martinez, Yuji Tachikawa, with a mathematical appendix by Arun Debray |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SciPost
2020-07-01
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Series: | SciPost Physics |
Online Access: | https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.9.1.010 |
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