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arxiv: hep-th/9505054 · v1 · pith:HJ77JP5Enew · submitted 1995-05-10 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph

Maximally Supersymmetric String Theories in D<10

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The existence of maximally supersymmetric solutions to heterotic string theory that are not toroidal compactifications of the ten-dimensional superstring is established. We construct an exact fermionic realization of an N=1 supersymmetric string theory in D=8 with non-simply-laced gauge group Sp(20). Toroidal compactification to six and four dimensions gives maximally extended supersymmetric theories with reduced rank (4,12) and (6,14) respectively.

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