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The Monster Sporadic Group and a Theory Underlying Superstring Models

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arxiv hep-th/9609162 v1 pith:6UJMXS3I submitted 1996-09-18 hep-th

The Monster Sporadic Group and a Theory Underlying Superstring Models

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The pattern of duality symmetries acting on the states of compactified superstring models reinforces an earlier suggestion that the Monster sporadic group is a hidden symmetry for superstring models. This in turn points to a supersymmetric theory of self-dual and anti-self-dual K3 manifolds joined by Dirac strings and evolving in a 13 dimensional spacetime as the fundamental theory. In addition to the usual graviton and dilaton this theory contains matter-like degrees of freedom resembling the massless states of the heterotic string, thus providing a completely geometric interpretation for ordinary matter.

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