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Non-perturbative monodromies in N=2 heterotic string vacua

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-08-15 v2

Abstract

We address non-perturbative effects and duality symmetries in N=2N=2 heterotic string theories in four dimensions. Specifically, we consider how each of the four lines of enhanced gauge symmetries in the perturbative moduli space of N=2N=2 T2T_2 compactifications is split into 2 lines where monopoles and dyons become massless. This amounts to considering non-perturbative effects originating from enhanced gauge symmetries at the microscopic string level. We show that the perturbative and non-perturbative monodromies consistently lead to the results of Seiberg-Witten upon identication of a consistent truncation procedure from local to rigid N=2N=2 supersymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9507113,
  title  = {Non-perturbative monodromies in N=2 heterotic string vacua},
  author = {Gabriel Lopes Cardoso and Dieter Lüst and Thomas Mohaupt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9507113},
  year   = {2016}
}

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41 pages, Latex (minor changes in text and note added)