Gauge spinors and string duality.

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00025-0MaRDI QIDQ5934840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brett McInnes

Publication date 14 May 2001

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9910100

zbMATH Keywords

DualitySpin structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: When the gauge groups of the two heterotic string theories are broken, over tori, to their "SO(16)x SO(16)" subgroups, the winding modes correspond to representations which are spinorial with respect to those subgroups. Globally, the two subgroups are isomorphic neither to SO(16)x SO(16) nor to each other. Any attempt to formulate the T-duality of the two theories on any manifold more complicated than the product of a circle with a Euclidean space must therefore take into account the possible non-existence of the relevant "generalised spin structure". We give here a global formulation of T-duality in this case, and discuss examples where the duality seems to be obstructed.

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