Geometric origin of Montonen-Olive duality

Vafa, Cumrun

doi:10.4310/ATMP.1997.v1.n1.a6

Geometric origin of Montonen-Olive duality

Cumrun Vafa
(
- Harvard U.
)

Jul, 1997

8 pages

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Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 1 (1998) 158-166

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hep-th/9707131 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.4310/ATMP.1997.v1.n1.a6

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HUTP-97-A034

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Abstract:

We show how

N=4, D=4

duality of Montonen and Olive can be derived for all gauge groups using geometric engineering in the context of type II strings, where it reduces to T-duality. The derivation for the non-simply laced cases involves the use of some well known facts about orbifold conformal theories.

string model
gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
field theory: conformal
field theory: orbifold
monopole
duality

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