Publications [#243279] of Paul S. Aspinwall

Papers Published

1. Aspinwall, PS, Enhanced gauge symmetries and Calabi-Yau threefolds, Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics, vol. 371 no. 3-4 (March, 1996), pp. 231-237, Elsevier BV [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/14)

   Abstract:
   We consider the general case of a type IIA string compactified on a Calabi-Yau manifold which has a heterotic dual description. It is shown that the nonabelian gauge symmetries which can appear nonperturbatively in the type II string but which are understood perturbatively in the heterotic string are purely a result of string-string duality in six dimensions. We illustrate this with some examples.