Type I Superstrings without D-branes
Abstract
Notwithstanding the central role of D-branes in many recently proposed string dualities, several interesting type I vacua have been found without resorting directly to D-brane technology. In this talk, we analyze a three-generation SO(8)xU(12) chiral type I model with N=1 supersymmetry in D=4. It descends from the type IIB compactification on the Z orbifold and requires only Neumann boundary conditions, i.e. only the ubiquitous D9-branes (pan-branes). We also discuss a large class of 6D type I vacua that display rich patterns of Chan-Paton symmetry breaking/enhancement and various numbers of tensor multiplets. Finally, we briefly address issues raised by the conjectured heterotic - type I duality and by the relation between type I vacua and compactifications of the putative F-theory.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9702098,
title = {Type I Superstrings without D-branes},
author = {Massimo Bianchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9702098},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, latex, no figures; contribution to the Proceedings of the XII Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, Rome, September 1996