Heterotic strings on (K3 T^2)/ Z₃ and their dual Calabi-Yau threefolds

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2020)203zbMATH Open1436.83079arXiv1911.09697OpenAlexW3104461796MaRDI QIDQ780908FDOQ780908

Aradhita Chattopadhyaya, Andreas Banlaki, Maria Schimpf, Thorsten Schimannek, Abhiram Kidambi

Publication date: 15 July 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study compactifications of the $calN=2$ heterotic $E_{8}imes{E}_8$ string on $(K3imes{T}^2)/mathbb{Z}_3$ with various gauge backgrounds and calculate the topological couplings in the effective supergravity action that arise from one-loop amplitudes. We then identify candidates for dual type IIA compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds and compare the heterotic results with the corresponding topological string amplitudes. We find that the dual Calabi-Yau geometries are $K3$ fibrations that are also genus one fibered with three-sections. Moreover, we show that the intersection form on the polarization lattice of the $K3$ fibration has to be three times the intersection form on the Narain lattice $Gamm{a}^{1,1}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09697

zbMATH Keywords

string dualitysuperstrings and heterotic stringstopological strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50) Dimensional compactification in quantum field theory (81T33)

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