Constructing nongeometric vacua in string theory

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.11.005zbMATH Open1119.81365arXivhep-th/0404217OpenAlexW2020079100WikidataQ125886081 ScholiaQ125886081MaRDI QIDQ874569FDOQ874569

Brook Williams, Alex Flournoy, Brian Wecht

Publication date: 10 April 2007

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

Abstract: In this paper we investigate compactifications of the type II and heterotic string on four-dimensional spaces with nongeometric monodromies. We explicitly construct backgrounds which contain the "Duality Twists" discussed by Dabholkar and Hull. Similar constructions of nongeometric backgrounds have been discussed for type II strings by Hellerman, McGreevy, and Williams. We find that imposing such monodromies projects out many moduli from the resulting vacua and argue that these backgrounds are the spacetime realizations of interpolating asymmetric orbifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0404217

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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