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Publications [#303517] of Paul S. Aspinwall
Papers Published
- Aspinwal, PS; Gross, M, The SO(32) heterotic string on a K3 surface,
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, vol. 387 no. 4
(October, 1996),
pp. 735-742, Elsevier BV [9605131v2], [doi]
(last updated on 2024/04/24)
Abstract: The SO(32) heterotic string on a K3 surface is analyzed in terms of the dual theory of a type II string (or F-theory) on an elliptically fibred Calabi-Yau manifold. The results are in beautiful agreement with earlier work by Witten using very different methods. In particular, we find gauge groups of SO(32) x Sp(k) appearing at points in the moduli space identified with point-like instantons and see hypermultiplets in the (32, 2k) representation becoming massless at the same time. We also discuss some aspects of the E8 x E8 case.
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