An M-Theory Perspective on Heterotic K3 Orbifold Compactifications

DOI10.1142/S0217751X0301574XMaRDI QIDQ4451799zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors 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)

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)

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.

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• \( \mathcal{N} =2\) heterotic string compactifications on orbifolds of \(K3 {\times} T^{2}\)

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• Non-perturbative heterotic duals of M-theory on \(G_2\) orbifolds
• Heterotic strings on \(\mathbb{T}^3/\mathbb{Z}_2\), Nikulin involutions and M-theory
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• Constraints on heterotic M-theory from s-cobordism
• Non-abelian orbifold compactifications of the heterotic string
• Merging heterotic orbifolds and \(K3\) compactifications with line bundles
• Equivariant cohomotopy implies orientifold tadpole cancellation

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