Monstrous Heterotic Quantum Mechanics

TL;DR

This paper explores a heterotic string compactification that models a particle interacting with excited states in a symmetric space, providing insights into D-particle dynamics in type IIA string theory.

Contribution

It introduces a novel heterotic string compactification framework that captures D-particle dynamics in a specific symmetric space.

Findings

Model describes particle interactions in a symmetric space

Links heterotic string compactification to D-particle dynamics

Provides a new perspective on string interactions in compactified spaces

Abstract

A compactification of the heterotic string is considered which describes a particle propagating in the symmetric space M = SO(9,1;Z)\SO(9,1;R)/SO(9;R) in interaction with excited states whose dynamics is (1+1)-dimensional. The model appears to describe D-particle dynamics in type IIA string theory on M.