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SUSY Gauge Dynamics and Singularities of 4d N=1 String Vacua

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-15 v1

Abstract

Many N=1 heterotic string compactifications exhibit physically mysterious singularities at codimension one in the moduli space of vacua. At these singularities, Yukawa couplings of charged fields develop poles as a function of the moduli. We explain these conformal field theory singularities, in a class of examples, as arising from non-perturbative gauge dynamics of non-perturbative gauge bosons (whose gauge coupling is the sigma model coupling) in the string theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9605036,
  title  = {SUSY Gauge Dynamics and Singularities of 4d N=1 String Vacua},
  author = {S. Kachru and N. Seiberg and E. Silverstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9605036},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, harvmac big