Evidence for heterotic / heterotic duality

Duff, M.J.; Minasian, R.; Witten, Edward

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(96)00059-4

Evidence for heterotic / heterotic duality

M.J. Duff
(
- Texas A-M
)
,
R. Minasian
(
- CERN
)
,
Edward Witten
(
- Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study
)

Jan, 1996

36 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Phys.B 465 (1996) 413-438

e-Print:

hep-th/9601036 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1016/0550-3213(96)00059-4

Report number:

CTP-TAMU-54-95

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Abstract:

We re-examine the question of heterotic - heterotic string duality in six dimensions and argue that the

E_8\times E_8

heterotic string, compactified on

K3

with equal instanton numbers in the two

E_8

's, has a self-duality that inverts the coupling, dualizes the antisymmetric tensor, acts non-trivially on the hypermultiplets, and exchanges gauge fields that can be seen in perturbation theory with gauge fields of a non-perturbative origin. The special role of the symmetric embedding of the anomaly in the two

E_8

's can be seen from field theory considerations or from an eleven-dimensional point of view. The duality can be deduced by looking in two different ways at eleven-dimensional

M

-theory compactified on

K3\times {\bf S}~1/\Z_2

.

Note:

36 pages, LaTeX Report-no: CTP-TAMU-54/95

11.25.-w
11.25.Sq
Duality
Anomalies
String theory
M-theory
Instantons
string model: heterotic
gauge field theory: E(8) x E(8)
compactification

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