String dualities from Matrix theory
Abstract
We suggest that the (2,0) six-dimensional field theory compactified on S1 × K3 is the Matrix model description of both M-theory on K3 and the heterotic string on T3. This proposal is different from existing proposals for the heterotic theory. Different limits of the base-space geometry give the different space-time interpretations, making M-theory/heterotic duality manifest. We also present partial results on heterotic/F-theory duality.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- April 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00814-6
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9705175
- Bibcode:
- 1998NuPhB.516..229B
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- Harvmac, 14 pages, no figures