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

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2017)064zbMATH Open1383.83171arXiv1708.05428OpenAlexW3103632283MaRDI QIDQ1706873FDOQ1706873

Authors: Anamaría Font, Christoph Mayrhofer 

Publication date: 28 March 2018

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

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.

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

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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)

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