Point-like instantons and the Spin(32)/Z₂ heterotic string

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00232-0zbMATH Open0935.81054arXivhep-th/9612108MaRDI QIDQ1358103FDOQ1358103

Paul S. Aspinwall

Publication date: 18 June 1997

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

Abstract: We consider heterotic string theories compactified on a K3 surface which lead to an unbroken perturbative gauge group of Spin(32)/Z2. All solutions obtained are combinations of two types of point-like instanton --- one ``simple type as discovered by Witten and a new type associated to the ``generalized second Stiefel-Whitney class as introduced by Berkooz et al. The new type of instanton is associated to an enhancement of the gauge symmetry by Sp(4) and the addition of a massless tensor supermultiplet. It is shown that if four simple instantons coalesce at an orbifold point in the K3 surface then a massless tensor field appears which may be used to interpolate between the two types of instanton. By allowing various combinations of point-like instantons to coalesce, large gauge groups (e.g., rank 128) with many massless tensor supermultiplets result. The analysis is done in terms of F-theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612108

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsF-theorycompactified heterotic string theoriesK3 bundlesK3 surface orbifold pointKummer latticelarge gauge groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

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