F-theory on K3 K3 and instantons on 7-branes

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00636-6zbMATH Open0953.81078arXivhep-th/9703194MaRDI QIDQ1569632FDOQ1569632

Authors: M. Bershadsky, V. Sadov 

Publication date: 3 July 2000

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

Abstract: We discuss N=2 supersymmetric compactifications to four dimensions from the point of view of F-theory and heterotic theory. In a relatively simple setup, we illustrate the spectral theory for vector bundles on K3xT^2 and discuss the heterotic -- F-theory map. The moduli space of instantons on the 7-brane wrapped around K3 is discussed from the point of view of Higgs mechanism in the effective four-dimensional N=2 theory. This allows us to elaborate on the transitions between various branches of the moduli space of the heterotic/F-theory. We also describe the F-theory compactification on smooth K3xK3 without the 3-branes in which the anomaly is cancelled by the gauge fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703194

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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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• Warped compactifications in M and F theory
• F-theory flux, destabilization of orientifolds and soft terms on D7-branes
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