Free fermionic webs of heterotic T-folds
Abstract
Moduli stabilisation is key to obtaining phenomenologically viable string models. Non-geometric compactifications, like T-duality orbifolds (T-folds), are capable of freezing many moduli. However, in this Letter we emphasise that T-folds, admitting free fermionic descriptions, can be associated with a large number of different T-folds with varying number of moduli, since the fermion pairings for bosonisation are far from unique. Consequently, in one description a fermionic construction might appear to be asymmetric, and hence non-geometric, while in another it admits a symmetric orbifold description. We introduce the notion of intrinsically asymmetric T-folds for fermionic constructions that do not admit any symmetric orbifold description after bosonisation. Finally, we argue that fermion symmetries induce mappings in the bosonised description that extend the T-duality group.
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@article{arxiv.2306.16443,
title = {Free fermionic webs of heterotic T-folds},
author = {Alon E. Faraggi and Stefan Groot Nibbelink and Benjamin Percival},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16443},
year = {2024}
}
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5 pages LaTeX, 1 figure, final version, essentially identical to the publication in PRD