Superstrings and manifolds of exceptional holonomy

DOI10.1007/BF01671569zbMATH Open0839.53060arXivhep-th/9407025OpenAlexW2083735868MaRDI QIDQ1900244FDOQ1900244

Authors: Cumrun Vafa, S. Shatashvili 

Publication date: 25 June 1996

Published in: Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The condition of having an $N=1$ spacetime supersymmetry for heterotic string leads to 4 distinct possibilities for compactifications namely compactifications down to 6,4,3 and 2 dimensions. Compactifications to 6 and 4 dimensions have been studied extensively before (corresponding to $K3$ and a Calabi-Yau threefold respectively). Here we complete the study of the other two cases corresponding to compactification down to 3 on a 7 dimensional manifold of $G_2$ holonomy and compactification down to 2 on an 8 dimensional manifold of $Spin(7)$ holonomy. We study the extended chiral algebra and find the space of exactly marginal deformations. It turns out that the role the $U(1)$ current plays in the $N=2$ superconformal theories, is played by tri-critical Ising model in the case of $G_2$ and Ising model in the case of $Spin(7)$ manifolds. Certain generalizations of mirror symmetry are found for these two cases. We also discuss a topological twisting in each case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9407025

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorycompactificationsupersymmetrysuperstring theorymirror manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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