1995/08/14 by Ashoke Sen, Cumrun Vafa · 102 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Adiabatic process #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Compactification (mathematics) #Generalization #Heterotic string theory #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #String (physics) #Supersymmetry #Triality #Type (biology) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0550-3213(95)00498-h
published in Nuclear Physics B 455(1-2), 165-187 (Elsevier BV) · LaTeX file, 30 pages
arxiv created 1995/08/14 · openalex publication_date 1995/11/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Using a U-duality symmetry of type II compactification on T4 represented by triality action on the T-duality group, and applying the adiabatic argument we construct dual pairs of type II compactifications in lower dimensions. The simplicity of this construction makes it an ideal set up for testing various conjectures about string dualities. In some of these models the type II string has a perturbative non-abelian gauge symmetry. Examples include models with N=2,4,6 supersymmetry in four dimensions. There are also self-dual (in the sense of S-T exchange symmetric) N=2 and N=6 examples. A generalization of the adiabatic argument can be used to construct dual pairs of models with N=1 supersymmetry.