Spinor-Vector Duality in Heterotic SUSY Vacua
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-02-12 v1
Abstract
We elaborate on the recently discovered spinor-vector duality in realistic free fermionic heterotic vacua. We emphasize the interpretation of the freely-acting orbifolds carried out on the six internal dimensions as coordinate-dependent compactifications; they play a central role in the duality, especially because of their ability to break the right-moving superconformal algebra of the space-time supersymmetric heterotic vacua. These considerations lead to a simple and intuitive proof of the spinor-vector duality, and to the formulation of explicit rules to find the dual of a given model. We discuss the interest of such a duality, notably concerning the structure of the space of vacua of superstring theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.4084,
title = {Spinor-Vector Duality in Heterotic SUSY Vacua},
author = {Tristan Catelin-Jullien and Alon E. Faraggi and Costas Kounnas and John Rizos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.4084},
year = {2009}
}
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28 pages, 6 tables