Heterotic String Dynamics in the Solvable Lie Algebra Gauge

Abstract

A revision of the toroidal Kaluza-Klein compactification of the massless sector of the E-8 x E-8 heterotic string, is given. Under the solvable Lie algebra gauge the dynamics of the O(p, q)/(O(p) x O(q)) symmetric space sigma model which is coupled to a dilaton. N Abelian gauge fields and the Chern-Simons type field strength is studied in a general formalism. The results are used to derive the bosonic matter field equations of the massless sector of the D-dimensional compactified E-8 x E-8 heterotic string. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.