On the ubiquity of K3 fibrations in string duality

被引:107
作者
Aspinwall, PS [1 ]
Louis, J [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV MUNICH,SEKT PHYS,D-80333 MUNICH,GERMANY
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0370-2693(95)01541-8
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We consider the general case of N = 2 dual pairs of type IIA/heterotic string theories in four dimensions. We show that if the type IIA string in this pair can be viewed as having been compactified on a Calabi-Yau manifold in the usual way then this manifold must be of the form of a K3 fibration. We also see how the bound on the rank of the gauge group of the perturbative heterotic string has a natural interpretation on the type IIA side.
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