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F-Theory with Quantized Fluxes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We present evidence that the CHL string in eight dimensions is dual to F-theory compactified on an elliptic K3 with a Γ0(2)\Gamma_{0}(2) monodromy group. The monodromy group Γ0(2)\Gamma_{0}(2) allows one to turn on the flux of an antisymmetric two form along the base. The BμνB_{\mu \nu} flux is quantized and therefore the moduli space of the CHL string is disconnected from the moduli space of F-theory/Heterotic strings (as expected). The non-zero BμνB_{\mu \nu} flux obstructs certain deformations restricting the moduli of elliptic K3 to a 10 dimensional moduli space. We also discuss how one can reconstruct the gauge groups from the elliptic fibration structure.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9805056,
  title  = {F-Theory with Quantized Fluxes},
  author = {Michael Bershadsky and Tony Pantev and Vladimir Sadov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9805056},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

41 pages, harvmac, 35 figures, references corrected