ENHANCED GAUGE SYMMETRIES AND CALABI-YAU THREEFOLDS

Authors
ASPINWALL PS
Citation
Ps. Aspinwall, ENHANCED GAUGE SYMMETRIES AND CALABI-YAU THREEFOLDS, Physics letters. Section B, 371(3-4), 1996, pp. 231-237
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physics letters. Section B → ACNP
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
371
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
231 - 237
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1996)371:3-4<231:EGSACT>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
We consider the general case of a type IIA string compactified on a Ca labi-Yau manifold which has a heterotic dual description. It is shown that the nonabelian gauge symmetries which can appear nonperturbativel y in the type II string but which are understood perturbatively in the heterotic string are purely a result of string-string duality in six dimensions. We illustrate this with some examples.