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On Orbifolds with Discrete Torsion

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-07 v1 Algebraic Geometry Differential Geometry

Abstract

We consider the interpretation in classical geometry of conformal field theories constructed from orbifolds with discrete torsion. In examples we can analyze, these spacetimes contain ``stringy regions'' that from a classical point of view are singularities that are to be neither resolved nor blown up. Some of these models also give particularly simple and clear examples of mirror symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9409188,
  title  = {On Orbifolds with Discrete Torsion},
  author = {Cumrun Vafa and Edward Witten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9409188},
  year   = {2010}
}

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35 pages

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