Twisted heterotic/type I duality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2021-10-28 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Quantum Algebra
Abstract
We formulate a twisted version of the conjectured duality between heterotic and type I string theories. Our formulation relates the chiral part of the heterotic string with a type I topological B-model on a Calabi-Yau five-fold. We provide a non-trivial check of this duality by showing that certain infinite-dimensional Lie algebras of global gauge transformations built from each theory are isomorphic. Matching the structure constants of the Lie algebras involves a detailed analysis of one-loop corrections on the type I side.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2110.14616,
title = {Twisted heterotic/type I duality},
author = {Kevin Costello and Brian R. Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14616},
year = {2021}
}