A Note on Low-Dimensional String Compactifications
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-11-19 v1
Abstract
We study supersymmetric compactifications of type II strings on eightfolds to two dimensions. It is demonstrated that the type IIB string on an eightfold is free of gravitational anomalies. T-duality requires that this theory when further compactified on a circle must have a vacuum momentum; this is explicitly shown to be present and to have the right value. A subtlety in the relation of IIB compactifications and M-Theory orientifolds to two dimensions is pointed out.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9612188,
title = {A Note on Low-Dimensional String Compactifications},
author = {Keshav Dasgupta and Sunil Mukhi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9612188},
year = {2010}
}
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