N=1 Heterotic/F-Theory Duality

Details N=1 Heterotic/F-Theory Duality N=1 Heterotic/F-Theory Duality

1998-08-26

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808159v1

Fortsch.Phys. 47 (1999) 587-642

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

82pp,latex

Scientific paper

We review aspects of N=1 duality between the heterotic string and F-theory. After a description of string duality intended for the non-specialist the framework and the constraints for heterotic/F-theory compactifications are presented. The computations of the necessary Calabi-Yau manifold and vector bundle data, involving characteristic classes and bundle moduli, are given in detail. The matching of the spectrum of chiral multiplets and of the number of heterotic five-branes respectively F-theory three-branes, needed for anomaly cancellation in four-dimensional vacua, is pointed out. Several examples of four-dimensional dual pairs are constructed where on both sides the geometry of the involved manifolds relies on del Pezzo surfaces.

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