N=1 Heterotic/F-Theory Duality

DOI10.1002/(SICI)1521-3978(199906)47:6%3C587::AID-PROP587%3E3.0.CO;2-5zbMATH Open1052.81577arXivhep-th/9808159OpenAlexW3102450394MaRDI QIDQ4507559FDOQ4507559

Björn Andreas

Publication date: 8 October 2000

Abstract: We review aspects of N=1 duality between the heterotic string and F-theory. After a description of string duality intended for the non-specialist the framework and the constraints for heterotic/F-theory compactifications are presented. The computations of the necessary Calabi-Yau manifold and vector bundle data, involving characteristic classes and bundle moduli, are given in detail. The matching of the spectrum of chiral multiplets and of the number of heterotic five-branes respectively F-theory three-branes, needed for anomaly cancellation in four-dimensional vacua, is pointed out. Several examples of four-dimensional dual pairs are constructed where on both sides the geometry of the involved manifolds relies on del Pezzo surfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808159

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

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