Non-geometric vacua of the Spin(32)/Z₂ heterotic string and little string theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2017)064MaRDI QIDQ1706873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anamaría Font, Christoph Mayrhofer

Publication date 28 March 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05428

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field models in string theoryF-theorystring dualitysuperstrings and heterotic strings

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) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Calabi-Yau theory (complex-analytic aspects) (32Q25)

Abstract: We study a class of 6d $mathcalN=(1,0)$ non-geometric vacua of the $extSpin(32)/mathbb{Z}_2$ heterotic string which can be understood as fibrations of genus-two curves over a complex one-dimensional base. The 6d $mathcalN=(1,0)$ theories living on the defects that arise when the genus-two fiber degenerates at a point of the base are analyzed by dualizing to F-theory on elliptic K3-fibered non-compact Calabi-Yau threefolds. We consider all possible degenerations of genus-two curves and systematically attempt to resolve the singularities of the dual threefolds. As in the analogous non-geometric vacua of the $E_{8}imes{E}_8$ heterotic string, we find that many of the resulting dual threefolds contain singularities which do not admit a crepant resolution. When the singularities can be resolved crepantly, we determine the emerging effective theories which turn out to be little string theories at a generic point on their tensor branch. We also observe a form of duality in which theories living on distinct defects are the same.

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