On the hyperbolic structure of moduli spaces with sixteen SUSYs

Apr, 1999
18 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 05 (1999) 015
e-Print:
Report number:
  • HEP-UK-0008,
  • RU-99-14

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Abstract:
We study the asymptotic limits of the heterotic string theories compactified on tori. We find a bilinear form uniquely determined by dualities which becomes Lorentzian in the case of one spacetime dimension. For the case of the SO(32) theory, the limiting descriptions include SO(32) heterotic strings, type I, type IA and other T-duals, M-theory on K3, type IIA theory on K3 and type IIB theory on K3 and possibly new limits not understood yet.
  • string model: heterotic
  • compactification: torus
  • supersymmetry
  • moduli space
  • gauge field theory: SO(32)
  • duality
  • algebra: lattice
  • M-theory