Recent Developments in Fractional Superstrings

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances in fractional superstrings, focusing on internal projections that modify their worldsheet conformal field theories and examining the resulting spacetime statistical properties.

Contribution

It summarizes new findings on how internal projections affect the worldsheet theories and the spacetime statistics in fractional superstrings.

Findings

Internal projections deform worldsheet conformal field theories.

Spacetime sectors exhibit altered statistical properties.

Recent results clarify the structure of fractional superstrings.

Abstract

Fractional superstrings experience new types of ``internal projections'' which alter or deform their underlying worldsheet conformal field theories. In this talk I summarize some recent results concerning both the worldsheet theory which remains after the internal projections have acted, and the spacetime statistics properties of its various sectors.