Threshold corrections and symmetry enhancement in string compactifications

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00315-JzbMATH Open1003.81518arXivhep-th/9412209WikidataQ57077139 ScholiaQ57077139MaRDI QIDQ1897243FDOQ1897243

Authors: Gabriel Lopes Cardoso, Dieter Lüst, T. Mohaupt 

Publication date: 23 August 1995

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

Abstract: We present the computation of threshold functions for Abelian orbifold compactifications. Specifically, starting from the massive, moduli-dependent string spectrum after compactification, we derive the threshold functions as target space duality invariant free energies (sum over massive string states). In particular we work out the dependence on the continuous Wilson line moduli fields. In addition we concentrate on the physically interesting effect that at certain critical points in the orbifold moduli spaces additional massless states appear in the string spectrum leading to logarithmic singularities in the threshold functions. We discuss this effect for the gauge coupling threshold corrections; here the appearance of additional massless states is directly related to the Higgs effect in string theory. In addition the singularities in the threshold functions are relevant for the loop corrections to the gravitational coupling constants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9412209

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zbMATH Keywords

critical pointslogarithmic singularitiesautomorphic functionstarget space dualityAbelian orbifoldmassive untwisted statesWilson line moduli fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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