Heterotic and Type I string dynamics from eleven dimensions

Oct, 1995
19 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 460 (1996) 506-524
  • Published: Apr 21, 2014
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Report number:
  • IASSNS-HEP-95-86,
  • PUPT-1571A

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Abstract: (CRC Press)
We propose that the ten-dimensional E8 × E8 heterotic string is related to an eleven-dimensional theory on the orbifold R10 × S1/Z2 in the same way that the Type IIA string in ten dimensions is related to R10 × S1. This in particular determines the strong coupling behavior of the ten-dimensional E8 × E8 theory. It also leads to a plausible scenario whereby duality between SO(32) heterotic and Type I superstrings follows from the classical symmetries of the eleven-dimensional world, just as the SL(2, Z) duality of the ten-dimensional Type IIB theory follows from eleven-dimensional diffeomorphism invariance.
  • string model: heterotic
  • dimension: 10
  • dimension: 11
  • gauge field theory: E(8) x E(8)
  • orbifold: R(10) x S(1)/Z(2)
  • approximation: strong coupling
  • strong coupling: approximation
  • membrane model
  • anomaly
  • duality: transformation