Enhanced Gauge Symmetries and Calabi-Yau Threefolds
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
We consider the general case of a type IIA string compactified on a Calabi-Yau manifold which has a heterotic dual description. It is shown that the nonabelian gauge symmetries which can appear nonperturbatively in the type II string but which are understood perturbatively in the heterotic string are purely a result of string-string duality in six dimensions. We illustrate this with some examples.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9511171,
title = {Enhanced Gauge Symmetries and Calabi-Yau Threefolds},
author = {Paul S. Aspinwall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9511171},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages, LaTeX