4-D Chiral N=1 Type I Vacua With And Without D5-Branes

Details 4-D Chiral N=1 Type I Vacua With And Without D5-Branes 4-D Chiral N=1 Type I Vacua With And Without D5-Branes

1997-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9706051v3

Nucl.Phys. B520 (1998) 75-92

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Revtex 3.0, 19 pages, 1 figure, minor misprints corrected, references updated, discussion simplified (to appear in Nucl. Phys.

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00056-X

In this paper we consider compactifications of type I strings on Abelian orbifolds. We discuss the tadpole cancellation conditions for the general case with D9-branes only. Such compactifications have (perturbative) heterotic duals which are also realized as orbifolds (with non-standard embedding of the gauge connection). The latter have extra twisted states that become massive once orbifold singularities are blown-up. This is due to the presence of perturbative heterotic superpotential with couplings between the extra twisted states, the orbifold blow-up modes, and (sometimes) untwisted matter fields. Anomalous U(1) (generically present in such models) also plays an important role in type I-heterotic (tree-level) duality matching. We illustrate these issues on a particular example of Z_3 \otimes Z_3 orbifold type I model (and its heterotic dual). The model has N=1 supersymmetry, U(4)^3 \otimes SO(8) gauge group, and chiral matter. We also consider compactifications of type I strings on Abelian orbifolds with both D9- and D5-branes. We discuss tadpole cancellation conditions for a certain class of such models. We illustrate the model building by considering a particular example of type I theory compactified on Z_6 orbifold. The model has N=1 supersymmetry, [U(6)\otimes U(6)\otimes U(4)]^2 gauge group, and chiral matter. This would correspond to a non-perturbative chiral vacuum from the heterotic point of view.

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