Gauge Spinors and String Duality

dc.creatorMcInnes, Brett
dc.date1999-10-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:48:15Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:48:15Z
dc.descriptionWhen the gauge groups of the two heterotic string theories are broken, over tori, to their "SO(16)x SO(16)" subgroups, the winding modes correspond to representations which are spinorial with respect to those subgroups. Globally, the two subgroups are isomorphic neither to SO(16)x SO(16) nor to each other. Any attempt to formulate the T-duality of the two theories on any manifold more complicated than the product of a circle with a Euclidean space must therefore take into account the possible non-existence of the relevant "generalised spin structure". We give here a global formulation of T-duality in this case, and discuss examples where the duality seems to be obstructed.
dc.description36 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9910100
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9910100
dc.identifierNucl.Phys.B577:439-460,2000
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00025-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/202856
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleGauge Spinors and String Duality
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