Heterotic/type II duality and non-geometric compactifications

被引:10
作者
Gautier, Y. [1 ,2 ]
Hull, C. M. [3 ]
Israel, D. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] UPMC Univ Paris 06, Sorbonne Univ, UMR 7589, LPTHE, 4 Pl Jussieu, Paris, France
[2] LPTHE, CNRS, UMR 7589, F-75005 Paris, France
[3] Imperial Coll London, Blackett Lab, Prince Consort Rd, London SW7 2AZ, England
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
Conformal Field Models in String Theory; String Duality; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; MIRROR SYMMETRY; STRING THEORY; SUPERSYMMETRY; SPACE; PAIRS;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP10(2019)214
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We present a new class of dualities relating non-geometric Calabi-Yau compactifications of type II string theory to T-fold compactifications of the heterotic string, both preserving four-dimensional N = 2 supersymmetry. The non-geometric Calabi-Yau space is a K3 fibration over T-2 with non-geometric monodromies in the duality group O(Gamma(4,20)); this is dual to a heterotic reduction on a T-4 fibration over T-2 with the O(Gamma(4,20)) monodromies now viewed as heterotic T-dualities. At a point in moduli space which is a minimum of the scalar potential, the type II compactification becomes an asymmetric Gepner model and the monodromies become automorphisms involving mirror symmetries, while the heterotic dual is an asymmetric toroidal orbifold. We generalise previous constructions to ones in which the automorphisms are not of prime order. The type II construction is perturbatively consistent, but the naive heterotic dual is not modular invariant. Modular invariance on the heterotic side is achieved by including twists in the circles dual to the winding numbers round the T-2, and this in turn introduces non-perturbative phases depending on NS5-brane charge in the type II construction.
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