The mirror transform of type I vacua in six dimensions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)81186-8zbMATH Open0934.81041OpenAlexW2165058523MaRDI QIDQ1362691FDOQ1362691

Authors Ashoke Sen, Savdeep Sethi

Publication date 6 August 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703157

zbMATH Keywords

stringsK3-surfaceheterotic string compactificationsbackground tensor field flux

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We study certain compactifications of the type I string on K3. The three topologically distinct choices of gauge bundle for the type I theory are shown to be equivalent to type IIB orientifolds with different choices of background anti-symmetric tensor field flux. Using a mirror transformation, we relate these models to orientifolds with fixed seven planes, and without any antisymmetric tensor field flux. This map allows us to relate these type I vacua to particular six-dimensional F theory and heterotic string compactifications.

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