The Mirror Transform of Type I Vacua in Six Dimensions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-09-15 v2
Abstract
We study certain compactifications of the type I string on K3. The three topologically distinct choices of gauge bundle for the type I theory are shown to be equivalent to type IIB orientifolds with different choices of background anti-symmetric tensor field flux. Using a mirror transformation, we relate these models to orientifolds with fixed seven planes, and without any antisymmetric tensor field flux. This map allows us to relate these type I vacua to particular six-dimensional F theory and heterotic string compactifications.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9703157,
title = {The Mirror Transform of Type I Vacua in Six Dimensions},
author = {Ashoke Sen and Savdeep Sethi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9703157},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, harvmac; references added