Duality Between the Webs of Heterotic and Type II Vacua
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-11-18 v3 alg-geom
Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We discuss how transitions in the space of heterotic K3*T^2 compactifications are mapped by duality into transitions in the space of Type II compactifications on Calabi-Yau manifolds. We observe that perturbative symmetry restoration, as well as non-perturbative processes such as changes in the number of tensor multiplets, have at least in many cases a simple description in terms of the reflexive polyhedra of the Calabi-Yau manifolds. Our results suggest that to many, perhaps all, four-dimensional N=2 heterotic vacua there are corresponding type II vacua.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9603170,
title = {Duality Between the Webs of Heterotic and Type II Vacua},
author = {Philip Candelas and Anamaria Font},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9603170},
year = {2014}
}
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