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Classification of Modular Symmetries in Non-Supersymmetric Heterotic String theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-04-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study modular symmetries in non-supersymmetric heterotic string theories on toroidal backgrounds with Wilson line modulus, constructed by stringy Scherk-Schwartz compactification. In particular, we focus on a subgroup of the T-duality group O(D+16,D,Z)O(D+16,D,\mathbb{Z}) with D=2D=2 given by an outer automorphism of the Narain lattice, which can be mapped to the Siegel modular group Sp(4,Z)\mathrm{Sp}(4,\mathbb{Z}). We classify the modular symmetries and a CPCP-like symmetry on T2T^2 and its orbifolds with symmetric and asymmetric orbifold twists. It turns out that the non-supersymmetric heterotic string theories only enjoy a part of modular symmetries in contrast to supersymmetric ones. Furthermore, the gauge symmetry is maximally enhanced at fixed points of modular symmetries on T2T^2 on which we analyze the vacuum structure of eight-dimensional tachyon-free vacua.

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@article{arxiv.2503.23741,
  title  = {Classification of Modular Symmetries in Non-Supersymmetric Heterotic String theories},
  author = {Shuta Funakoshi and Yuichi Koga and Hajime Otsuka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.23741},
  year   = {2025}
}

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67 pages