Duality Between the Webs of Heterotic and Type II Vacua

Journal article

We discuss how transitions in the space of heterotic K3*T^2 compactifications are mapped by duality into transitions in the space of Type II compactifications on Calabi-Yau manifolds. We observe that perturbative symmetry restoration, as well as non-perturbative processes such as changes in the number of tensor multiplets, have at least in many cases a simple description in terms of the reflexive polyhedra of the Calabi-Yau manifolds. Our results suggest that to many, perhaps all, four-dimensional N=2 heterotic vacua there are corresponding type II vacua.

Authors: Candelas, P; Font, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Nucl.Phys.B
• Volume: 511
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 295-325
• Publication date: 1996-03-26
• DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00410-5
• ISSN: 0550-3213
• Language: English
• Keywords: hep-th; math.AG; alg-geom