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hep-th1998★ 124 cited
Vacuum Energy Cancellation in a Non-supersymmetric String
Shamit Kachru, Jason Kumar, Eva Silverstein
We present a nonsupersymmetric orbifold of type II string theory and show that it has vanishing cosmological constant at the one and two loop level. We argue heuristically that the…
hep-th1998★ 278 cited
Black Holes and Superconformal Mechanics
P. Claus, M. Derix, R. Kallosh +3
The dynamics of a (super)particle near the horizon of an extreme Reissner-Nordstrom black hole is shown to be governed by an action that reduces to a (super)conformal mechanics mod…
hep-th1998★ 105 cited
Conformal Theory of M2, D3, M5 and `D1+D5' Branes
P. Claus, R. Kallosh, J. Kumar +2
The bosonic actions for M2, D3 and M5 branes in their own d-dimensional near-horizon background are given in a manifestly SO(p+1,2) x SO(d-p-1) invariant form (p=2,3,5). These symm…