Heterotic M(atrix) Strings and Their Interactions

Abstract

Following recent proposal of Dijkgraaf, Verlinde and Verlinde, we show that the M(atrix) theory compactified on $S_1/Z_2$ provides with a non-perturbative description of second-quantized light-cone heterotic string. This so-called heterotic M(atrix) string theory is defined by two-dimensional (8,0) supersymmetric chiral gauge theory with gauge group SO(2N) in the large N limit. We argue that at strong coupling fixed point the chiral gauge theory flows to a (8,0) superconformal field theory defined via $S_N$ symmetric product space orbifold. We show that the leading order correction to the strong coupling expansion corresponds to a unique irrelevant operator of scaling dimension three and describes joining and splitting cubic interactions of light-cone heterotic string. We also speculate on M(atrix) description of bosonic strings via dimensional reduction of d=26 Yang-Mills theory.

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