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New Non-Supersymmetric Tachyon-Free Strings
Zihni Kaan Baykara, Houri-Christina Tarazi, Cumrun Vafa
In four decades of string theory research, only a handful of non-supersymmetric tachyon-free strings with only one neutral scalar at tree level were found. We construct new such no…
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The Quasicrystalline String Landscape
Zihni Kaan Baykara, Houri-Christina Tarazi, Cumrun Vafa
In this work we investigate a largely unexplored non-geometric corner of the string landscape: the quasicrystalline orbifolds. These exist at special points of the Narain moduli le…