Heterotic String/F-theory Duality from Mirror Symmetry

dc.creatorBerglund, P.
dc.creatorMayr, P.
dc.date1998-11-25
dc.date1999-04-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:48:13Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:48:13Z
dc.descriptionWe use local mirror symmetry in type IIA string compactifications on Calabi-Yau n+1 folds $X_{n+1}$ to construct vector bundles on (possibly singular) elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau n-folds Z_n. The interpretation of these data as valid classical solutions of the heterotic string compactified on Z_n proves F-theory/heterotic duality at the classical level. Toric geometry is used to establish a systematic dictionary that assigns to each given toric n+1-fold $X_{n+1}$ a toric n fold Z_n together with a specific family of sheafs on it. This allows for a systematic construction of phenomenologically interesting d=4 N=1 heterotic vacua, e.g. on deformations of the tangent bundle, with grand unified and SU(3)\times SU(2) gauge groups. As another application we find non-perturbative gauge enhancements of the heterotic string on singular Calabi-Yau manifolds and new non-perturbative dualities relating heterotic compactifications on different manifolds.
dc.description63 pages, harvmac, 2 figures, v2: references added, extended explanations on non-perturbative five-branes and the identification of a line bundle $\cal N$ that is an important characteristic of the gauge background $V$
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811217
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811217
dc.identifierAdv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:1307-1372,1999
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/202846
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleHeterotic String/F-theory Duality from Mirror Symmetry
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