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Toroidal Compactification Without Vector Structure

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-07 v1

Abstract

Many important ideas about string duality that appear in conventional \T2\T^2 compactification have analogs for \T2\T^2 compactification without vector structure. We analyze some of these issues and show, in particular, how orientifold planes associated with Sp(n)Sp(n) gauge groups can arise from T-duality and how they can be interpreted in F-theory. We also, in an appendix, resolve a longstanding puzzle concerning the computation of \Tr(1)F\Tr (-1)^F in four-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SO(n).

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9712028,
  title  = {Toroidal Compactification Without Vector Structure},
  author = {Edward Witten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9712028},
  year   = {2010}
}

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50 pp.,harvmac