M theory on (K3 x s**1) / Z(2)

Feb, 1996
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 53 (1996) R6725-R6729
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Report number:
  • MRI-PHY-07-96

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Abstract:
We analyze MM-theory compactified on (K3×S 1)/Z2(K3\times S~1)/Z_2 where the Z2Z_2 changes the sign of the three form gauge field, acts on S 1S~1 as a parity transformation and on K3 as an involution with eight fixed points preserving SU(2) holonomy. At a generic point in the moduli space the resulting theory has as its low energy limit N=1 supergravity theory in six dimensions with eight vector, nine tensor and twenty hypermultiplets. The gauge symmetry can be enhanced (e.g. to E8E_8) at special points in the moduli space. At other special points in the moduli space tensionless strings appear in the theory.
  • 11.25.Mj
  • 04.65.+e
  • supergravity
  • compactification
  • coset space: K(3) x S(1)/Z(2)
  • particle: multiplet
  • multiplet: particle
  • moduli space
  • geometry: algebra