An orientifold of type-IIB theory on K3

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00199-XMaRDI QIDQ1921048zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Atish Dabholkar, Jaemo Park

Publication date 12 August 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9602030

zbMATH Keywords

fivebranesgravitational anomaliesGreen Schwarz mechanismopen string sector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

Abstract: A new orientifold of Type-IIB theory on $K3$ is constructed that has $N=1$ supersymmetry in six dimensions. The orientifold symmetry consists of a $Z_2$ involution of $K3$ combined with orientation-reversal on the worldsheet. The closed-string sector in the resulting theory contains nine tensor multiplets and twelve neutral hypermultiplets in addition to the gravity multiplet, and is anomaly-free by itself. The open-string sector contains only 5-branes and gives rise to maximal gauge groups $SO(16)$ or $U(8)imesU(8)$ at different points in the moduli space. Anomalies are canceled by a generalization of the Green-Schwarz mechanism that involves more than one tensor multiplets.

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