Monstrous String-String Duality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-07-19 v2
Abstract
We analyze the general class of supersymmetry preserving orbifolds of strong/weak Type IIA/heterotic dual pairs in six dimensions and below. A unified treatment is given by considering compactification to two spacetime dimensions and constructing orbifolds by subgroups of the Fischer-Greiss monster, utilizing the moonshine results of Conway and Norton. Duality requires nontrivial Ramond-Ramond fluxes on the Type IIA side which are localized at the fixed points. Further orbifolding by (-1)^{F_L} gives examples of new four dimensional N=2 Type IIA vacua which are not conformal field theory backgrounds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9512226,
title = {Monstrous String-String Duality},
author = {S. Chaudhuri and D. A. Lowe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9512226},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
18 pages, harvmac, tables (Final version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B.)