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

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00232-0MaRDI QIDQ1358103zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paul S. Aspinwall

Publication date 18 June 1997

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

compactified heterotic string theoriesF-theoryK3 bundlesK3 surface orbifold pointKummer latticelarge gauge groupsphase transitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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