An M-Theory Perspective on Heterotic K3 Orbifold Compactifications

DOI10.1142/S0217751X0301574XzbMATH Open1043.81055arXivhep-th/0010087MaRDI QIDQ4451799FDOQ4451799

M. G. Faux, Dieter Lüst, Burt A. Ovrut

Publication date: 1 March 2004

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze the structure of heterotic M-theory on K3 orbifolds by presenting a comprehensive sequence of M-theoretic models constructed on the basis of local anomaly cancellation. This is facilitated by extending the technology developed in our previous papers to allow one to determine "twisted" sector states in non-prime orbifolds. These methods should naturally generalize to four-dimensional models, which are of potential phenomenological interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0010087

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

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• TWO-STAGE ORBIFOLD COMPACTIFICATIONS OF HETEROTIC STRINGS
• Twisted Sectors and Chern–Simons Terms in M-Theory Orbifolds
• The fate of discrete torsion on resolved heterotic \(\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2\) orbifolds using (0,2) GLSMs

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