Mirrorfolds with K3 Fibrations

dc.creatorKawai, Shinsuke
dc.creatorSugawara, Yuji
dc.date2007-11-07
dc.date2008-05-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:38:36Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:38:36Z
dc.descriptionWe study a class of non-geometric string vacua realized as completely soluble superconformal field theory (SCFT). These models are defined as `interpolating orbifolds' of $K3 \times S^1$ by the mirror transformation acting on the $K3$ fiber combined with the half-shift on the $S^1$-base. They are variants of the T-folds, the interpolating orbifolds by T-duality transformations, and thus may be called `mirrorfolds'. Starting with arbitrary (compact or non-compact) Gepner models for the $K3$ fiber, we construct modular invariant partition functions of general mirrorfold models. In the case of compact $K3$ fiber the mirrorfolds only yield non-supersymmetric string vacua. They exhibit IR instability due to winding tachyon condensation which is similar to the Scherk-Schwarz type circle compactification. When the fiber SCFT is non-compact (say, the ALE space in the simplest case), on the other hand, both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric vacua can be constructed. The non-compact non-supersymmetric mirrorfolds can get stabilised at the level of string perturbation theory. We also find that in the non-compact supersymmeric mirrorfolds D-branes are {\em always} non-BPS. These D-branes can get stabilized against both open- and closed-string marginal deformations.
dc.descriptionEqns (2.61) and (3.17) corrected
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1045
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1045
dc.identifierJHEP0802:065,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/065
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/199620
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleMirrorfolds with K3 Fibrations
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