Orbifolds versus smooth heterotic compactifications
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-09-14 v1
Abstract
Following the recent exploration of smooth heterotic compactifications with unitary bundles, orbifold compactifications in six dimensions can be shown to correspond in the blow-up to compactifications with U(1) gauge backgrounds. A powerful tool is the comparison of anomaly polynomials. The presentation here focuses on heterotic SO(32) compactifications in six dimensions including five-branes. Four dimensional and E8 x E8 models are briefly commented on.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0709.2037,
title = {Orbifolds versus smooth heterotic compactifications},
author = {Gabriele Honecker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.2037},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Submitted for the SUSY07 proceedings, 4 pages, LaTeX