Heterotic and Type I string dynamics from eleven dimensions
Oct, 199519 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 460 (1996) 506-524
- Published: Apr 21, 2014
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- hep-th/9510209 [hep-th]
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
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