Comments on A, B, C chains of heterotic and type II vacua

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00374-XMaRDI QIDQ1366570zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philip Candelas, Eugene Perevalov, Govindan Rajesh

Publication date 10 September 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703148

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifoldscompactified heterotic stringsdual F-theory vacuaK3 surfacessingularitiestoric geometrytoric varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) 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 construct, as hypersurfaces in toric varieties, Calabi-Yau manifolds corresponding to F-theory vacua dual to E8*E8 heterotic strings compactified to six dimensions on K3 surfaces with non-semisimple gauge backgrounds. These vacua were studied in the recent work of Aldazabal, Font, Ibanez and Uranga. We extend their results by constructing many more examples, corresponding to enhanced gauge symmetries, by noting that they can be obtained from previously known Calabi-Yau manifolds corresponding to K3 compactification of heterotic strings with simple gauge backgrounds by means of extremal transitions of the conifold type.

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