Heterotic/type II duality and non-geometric compactifications

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2019)214zbMATH Open1427.83101arXiv1906.02165WikidataQ126985968 ScholiaQ126985968MaRDI QIDQ2283504FDOQ2283504

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 2 January 2020

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

Abstract: We present a new class of dualities relating non-geometric Calabi-Yau compactifications of type II string theory to T-fold compactifications of the heterotic string, both preserving four-dimensional $mathcalN=2$ supersymmetry. The non-geometric Calabi-Yau space is a $K3$ fibration over $T^2$ with non-geometric monodromies in the duality group $O(Gamm{a}_{4,20})$; this is dual to a heterotic reduction on a $T^4$ fibration over $T^2$ with the $O(Gamm{a}_{4,20})$ monodromies now viewed as heterotic T-dualities. At a point in moduli space which is a minimum of the scalar potential, the type II compactification becomes an asymmetric Gepner model and the monodromies become automorphisms involving mirror symmetries, while the heterotic dual is an asymmetric toroidal orbifold. We generalise previous constructions to ones in which the automorphisms are not of prime order. The type II construction is perturbatively consistent, but the naive heterotic dual is not modular invariant. Modular invariance on the heterotic side is achieved by including twists in the circles dual to the winding numbers round the $T^2$, and this in turn introduces non-perturbative phases depending on NS5-brane charge in the type II construction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02165

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field models in string theorystring dualitysuperstring vacuasuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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