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In this paper, we discuss the contraints that emerge from baryon nonconserving processes in theSU(4)×O(4) andSU(5)×U(1) models derived in the fermionic formulation of the four dimensional superstring. We examine dimension five baryon violating operators arising a) from Higgs exchange diagrams, and b) from non-renormalisable terms which arise from the exchange of massive string states. Both kinds of the above operators put non-trivial constraints on the matter field assignments and on the vevs of various singlet fields of the string models under consideration.
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Leontaris, G.K. Proton decay in four dimensional superstring models. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 53, 287–292 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01597566
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