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Fusing E-strings to heterotic strings: E+E→H

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: E-strings arise from M2 branes suspended between an M5 brane and an M9 plane. In this paper we obtain explicit expressions for the elliptic genus of two E-strings using a series of string dualities. Moreover we show how this can be used to recover the elliptic genus of two ${E}_{8}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{E}_{8}$ heterotic strings using the Ho\ifmmode \check{r}\else \v{r}\fi{}ava--Witten realization of heterotic strings in M-theory. This involves highly nontrivial identities among Jacobi forms and is remarkable in light of the fact that E-strings are ``sticky'' and form bound states whereas heterotic strings do not form bound states.

Source: Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.90.126012

Authors: Babak Haghighat, Guglielmo Lockhart, Cumrun Vafa

Institution: Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green