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Duality and $4d$ String Dynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Authors: Shamit Kachru

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Abstract

We review some examples of heterotic/type II string duality which shed light on the infrared dynamics of string compactifications with N=2 and N=1 supersymmetry in four dimensions.

Keywords

string theory t-duality string theory actions

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9603059,
  title  = {Duality and $4d$ String Dynamics},
  author = {Shamit Kachru},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9603059},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

13 pages, latex. Talk presented at the workshop ``Frontiers in Quantum Field Theory'' in honor of K. Kikkawa's 60th birthday, Osaka, Japan, December 1995