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TOPOLOGICAL BACKGROUND FIELDS AS QUANTUM DEGREES OF FREEDOM OF COMPACTIFIED STRINGS

Department of Theoretical Physics, School of Physics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia

International Chair in Mathematical Physics and Applications (ICMPA–UNESCO), 072 B.P. 50 Cotonou, Republic of Benin

On sabbatical leave from the Center for Particle Physics Phenomenology (CP3), Institute of Nuclear Physics Université catholique de Louvain, 2, Chemin du Cyclotron, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

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FLORIAN PAYEN

Center for Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Institute of Nuclear Physics, Université catholique de Louvain, 2, Chemin du Cyclotron, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217732307022335Cited by:5 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

It is shown that background fields of a topological character usually introduced as such in compactified string theories correspond to quantum degrees of freedom which parametrise the freedom in choosing a representation of the zero-mode quantum algebra in the presence of nontrivial topology.

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PACS: 03.65.Vf, 11.10.Ef, 11.25.-w

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