F-theory and the Gimon-Polchinski orientifold

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00262-9zbMATH Open0979.81564arXivhep-th/9702061MaRDI QIDQ1361925FDOQ1361925

Ashoke Sen

Publication date: 31 July 1997

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

Abstract: We establish the equivalence of the Gimon-Polchinski orientifold and F-theory on an elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau three fold on base $C{P}^{1}imesC{P}^1$ by comparing the gauge symmetry breaking pattern, local deformations in the moduli space, as well as the axion-dilaton background in the weak coupling limit in the two theories. We also provide an explanation for an apparent discrepancy between the F-theory and the orientifold results for constant coupling configuration.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702061

zbMATH Keywords

weak coupling limitcompactified string theoryelliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefoldintersecting orientifold geometrylocal moduli space deformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) 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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