Published February 13, 1992
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Journal article
Space duality and quantized Wilson lines
- 1. Max-Planck Inst. fuer Physik, Werner-Heisenberg-Inst., Muenchen (Germany)
- 2. Physik Dept., Technische Univ. Muenchen, Garching (Germany)
Description
We discuss space duality of the bosonic and heterotic string compactified on toroidal orbifolds, allowing for the most general modular invariant background. This includes discrete axionic background fields as well as quantized Wilson lines. The latter are known to reduce the gauge symmetry and to lead to (0,2)-models. We show that the canonical generalization of torus duality is not a transformation in moduli space. Instead it turns out to provide a map from a symmetric to an asymmetric orbifold. For duality to be a symmetry in moduli space one has to define a different transformation. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 276
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Series
- Phys. Lett., Sect. B.
- Journal Page Range
- 303-310
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- Netherlands
- INIS RN
- 23072776
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- AXIONS; BOSONS; COMPACTIFICATION; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DUALITY; FIELD OPERATORS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; METRICS; ORBITS; SECOND QUANTIZATION; SMOOTH MANIFOLDS; STRING MODELS; SUPERSYMMETRY; TOPOLOGICAL MAPPING; TOPOLOGY; TOROIDAL CONFIGURATION; VERTEX FUNCTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANNULAR SPACE; CLOSED CONFIGURATIONS; CONFIGURATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SYMMETRY; TRANSFORMATIONS