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Heterotic warped Eguchi-Hanson spectra with five-branes and line bundles
We consider heterotic strings on a warped Eguchi-Hanson space with five-brane
and line bundle gauge fluxes. The heterotic string admits an exact CFT
description in terms of an asymmetrically gauged SU(2)xSL(2,R) WZW model, in a
specific double scaling limit in which the blow-up radius and the string scale
are sent to zero simultaneously. This allows us to compute the perturbative 6D
spectra for these models in two independent fashions: i) Within the
supergravity approximation we employ a representation dependent index; ii) In
the double scaling limit we determine all marginal vertex operators of the
coset CFT. To achieve agreement between the supergravity and the CFT spectra,
we conjecture that the untwisted and the twisted CFT states correspond to the
same set of hyper multiplets in supergravity. This is in a similar spirit as a
conjectured duality between asymptotically linear dilaton CFTs and little
string theory living on NS-five-branes. As the five-brane charge is
non-vanishing, heterotic (anti-)five-branes have to be added in order to cancel
irreducible gauge anomalies. The local spectra can be combined in such a way
that supersymmetry is preserved on the compact resolved T^4/Z_2 orbifold by
choosing the local gauge fluxes appropriately.Comment: 1+36 pages LaTe
A Lorentz invariant doubled worldsheet theory
We propose a Lorentz invariant version of Tseytlin's doubled worldsheet
theory that makes T-duality covariance of the string manifest. This theory can
be derived as a gauge fixed version of Buscher's gauging procedure, in which
the left-over gauge field component acts as a Lagrange multiplier. This
description can naturally account for fractional linear O(D,D) transformations
of the metric and b-field. It is capable of describing non-geometric
backgrounds; geometric and non-geometric fluxes are encoded in the doubled
anti-symmetric tensor field strength.Comment: 4 pages LaTeX, no figures, discussion of path integral quantization
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Torus partition functions and spectra of gauged linear sigma models
Worldsheet (0,2) gauged linear sigma models are often used to study
supersymmetric heterotic string compactifications with non-trivial vector
bundles. We make use of supersymmetric localization techniques to determine
their one-loop partition functions. In particular we derive conditions which
ensure that the full partition function is modular invariant and we propose a
method to determine the massless and massive target space matter spectrum.Comment: 4 pages LaTeX; v2: important technical issue resolved, most results
essentially unchange
Line bundle embeddings for heterotic theories
In heterotic string theories consistency requires the introduction of a
non-trivial vector bundle. This bundle breaks the original ten-dimensional
gauge groups or for the
supersymmetric heterotic string theories and for the non-supersymmetric tachyon-free theory to smaller
subgroups. A vast number of MSSM-like models have been constructed up to now,
most of which describe the vector bundle as a sum of line bundles. However,
there are several different ways of describing these line bundles and their
embedding in the ten-dimensional gauge group. We recall and extend these
different descriptions and explain how they can be translated into each other.Comment: 29+1 pages, 7 tables, 1 figure, typos corrected, clarifying remarks
and references adde
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