The heterotic string is a soliton

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00310-OMaRDI QIDQ1895320zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jeffrey Harvey, Andrew Strominger

Publication date 15 August 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9504047

zbMATH Keywords

K3 surfacestring solitonsdegeneration pointsexact dualityRamond Ramond fieldsself dual lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

Abstract: It is shown that the Type IIA superstring compactified on $K3$ has a smooth string soliton with the same zero mode structure as the heterotic string compactified on a four torus, thus providing new evidence for a conjectured exact duality between the two six-dimensional string theories. The chiral worldsheet bosons arise as zero modes of Ramond-Ramond fields of the IIA string theory and live on a signature $(20,4)$ even, self-dual lattice. Stable, finite loops of soliton string provide the charged Ramond-Ramond states necessary for enhanced gauge symmetries at degeneration points of the $K3$ surface. It is also shown that Type IIB strings toroidally compactified to six dimensions have a multiplet of string solutions with Type II worldsheets.

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• Stringy evidence for a universal pattern at infinite distance
• The non-perturbative SO(32) heterotic string
• Type IIA-heterotic duals with maximal supersymmetry
• Octonionic superstring solitons
• Small instantons in string theory
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• Counting dyons in \(N=4\) string theory
• String-string duality conjecture in six dimensions and charged solitonic strings
• Notes on Matrix and micro strings

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