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Abelian fibrations, string junctions, and flux/geometry duality

Ron Donagia, Peng Gaob and Michael B. Schulzc

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In previous work, it was argued that the type IIB T6/Bbb Z2 orientifold with a choice of flux preserving Script N = 2 supersymmetry is dual to a class of purely geometric type IIA compactifications on abelian surface (T4) fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds. We provide two explicit constructions of the resulting Calabi-Yau duals. The first is a monodromy based description, analogous to F-theory encoding of Calabi-Yau geometry via 7-branes and string junctions, except for T4 rather than T2 fibers. The second is an explicit algebro-geometric construction in which the T4 fibers arise as the Jacobian tori of a family of genus-2 curves. This improved description of the duality map will be a useful tool to extend our understanding of warped compactifications. We sketch applications to related work to define warped Kaluza-Klein reduction in toroidal orientifolds, and to check the modified rules for D-brane instanton zero mode counting due to the presence of flux and other D-branes. The nontrivial fundamental groups of the Calabi-Yau manifolds constructed also have potential applications to heterotic model building.

Keywords

Superstring Vacua

F-Theory

String Duality

Flux compactifications

 

E-print Number: 0810.5195

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PACS

11.25.Mj Compactification and four-dimensional models

04.65.+e Supergravity

04.50.-h Higher-dimensional gravity and other theories of gravity

11.30.Pb Supersymmetry

11.25.Hf Conformal field theory, algebraic structures

11.15.Bt General properties of perturbation theory

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 04 (April 2009)

Received 11 March 2009, accepted for publication 15 April 2009

Published 28 April 2009



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