Domain Walls and the Universe
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Author(s)
Stelle, KS
Type
Working Paper
Abstract
D=11 supergravity possesses D=5 Calabi-Yau compactified solutions that may be identified with the vacua of the Horava-Witten orbifold construction for M--theory/heterotic duality. The simplest of these solutions naturally involves two 3-brane domain walls, which may be identified with the orbifold boundary planes; this solution also possesses an unbroken $Z_2$ symmetry. Consideration of nearby excited solutions, truncated to the zero-mode and $Z_2$ invariant sector, yields an effective D=4 heterotic theory displaying chirality and N=1, D=4 supersymmetry.
Copyright Statement
© The Author
Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9812086v1
Subjects
hep-th
Notes
11 pages, Latex. To appear in the proceedings of the Conference on Superfivebranes and Physics in 5+1 Dimensions, Trieste, Italy, 1-3 Apr 1998