Abstract

The groups Pin(n,m) and Pin(m,n) are not isomorphic, and the obstruction classes to their respective bundles are different. It follows that for nonorientable superstring theories the contributions to a Polyakov path integral from surfaces with positive metric are different from the contributions from those with negative metrics.

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