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by eddieh 1863 days ago
I'm not a theoretical physicist and only took a few math courses beyond which were required by my major, but it was my understanding that mainstream string theories have 10, 11, and 26 dimensions, but I recall, and could be wrong, that there can be infinitely many string theories with 4 dimensions being the lower bound and some unspecified upper bound.

But I'm not an expert and I was mostly being hyperbolic with my original reply. Corrections are always welcome.

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26 is for theories with bosons only. If you want fermions you need 10; 11 in M-theory as GP suggested.