Local models of heterotic flux vacua: spacetime and worldsheet aspects

DOI10.1002/PROP.201100018zbMATH Open1222.81244arXiv1109.1534OpenAlexW2095855378MaRDI QIDQ3020187FDOQ3020187

Authors: Dan Israël, Luca Carlevaro 

Publication date: 3 August 2011

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We report on some recent progress in understanding heterotic flux compactifications, from a worldsheet perspective mainly. We consider local models consisting in torus fibration over warped Eguchi-Hanson space and non-K"ahler resolved conifold geometries. We analyze the supergravity solutions and define a double-scaling limit of the resolved singularities, defined such that the geometry is smooth and weakly coupled. We show that, remarkably, the heterotic solutions admit solvable worldsheet CFT descriptions in this limit. This allows in particular to understand the important role of worldsheet non-perturbative effects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1534

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryflux compactificationsheterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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