Mathematics Underlying the F-Theory/Heterotic String Duality in Eight Dimensions
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On the Heterotic/f-theory Duality in Eight Dimensions
We review quantitative tests on the duality between the heterotic string on T 2 and F -theory on K3. On the heterotic side, certain threshold corrections to the effective action can be exactly computed at one-loop order, and the issue is to reproduce these from geometric quantities pertaining to the K3 surface. In doing so we learn about certain nonperturbative interactions of 7-branes.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Communications in Mathematical Physics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0010-3616,1432-0916
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-004-1270-9