Conformal aspects of Spinor-Vector duality

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.03.002zbMATH Open1215.81085arXiv1101.4194OpenAlexW2040815898MaRDI QIDQ545242FDOQ545242

Authors: Alon E. Faraggi, Ioannis G. Florakis, T. Mohaupt, Mirian Tsulaia 

Publication date: 22 June 2011

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a detailed study of various aspects of Spinor-Vector duality in Heterotic string compactifications and expose its origin in terms of the internal conformal field theory. In particular, we illustrate the main features of the duality map by using simple toroidal orbifolds preserving N_4 = 1 and N_4 = 2 spacetime supersymmetries in four dimensions. We explain how the duality map arises in this context by turning on special values of the Wilson lines around the compact cycles of the manifold. We argue that in models with N_4 = 2 spacetime supersymmetry, the interpolation between the Spinor-Vector dual vacua can be continuously realized. We trace the origin of the Spinor-Vector duality map to the presence of underlying N = (2, 2) and N = (4, 4) SCFTs, and explicitly show that the induced spectral-flow in the twisted sectors is responsible for the observed duality. The isomorphism between current algebra representations gives rise to a number of chiral character identities, reminiscent of the recently-discovered MSDS symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4194

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zbMATH Keywords

current algebra representationsHeterotic string compactificationsinternal conformal field theorytoroidal orbifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) 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) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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