We study a duality that relates the T^6/Bbb Z_2 orientifold with N = 2 flux to standard fluxless Calabi-Yau compactifications of type IIA string theory. Using the duality map, we show that the Calabi-Yau manifolds that arise are abelian surface (T^4) fibrations over Bbb P^1. We compute a variety of properties of these threefolds, including Hodge numbers, intersection numbers, discrete isometries, and H_1(X,Bbb Z). In addition, we show that S-duality in the orientifold description becomes T-duality of the abelian surface fibers in the dual Calabi-Yau description. The analysis is facilitated by the existence of an explicit Calabi-Yau metric on an open subset of the geometry that becomes an arbitrarily good approximation to the actual metric (...
This article first reviews the calculation of the N = 1 effective action for generic type IIA and ty...
We revisit type I compactifications with a Spin( 32)/Z(2) gauge bundle that admits no vector structu...
International audienceWe present a new class of dualities relating non-geometric Calabi-Yau com- pac...
In the context of string dualities, fibration structures of Calabi-Yau manifolds play a prominent ro...
It seems that all string theories and D = 11 supergravity are different limits of one underlying the...
The method to construct the Calabi-Yau manifolds and their mirrors from K3 surfaces was developed by...
We present a string theoretical description, given in terms of branes and orientifolds wrapping vani...
The theory of coverings of the two-dimensional torus is a standard part of algebraic topology and ha...
We systematically analyse globally consistent SU(5) GUT models on intersecting D7-branes in genuine ...
We offer a derivation of the duality between the topological U(1) gauge theory on a Calabi-Yau 3-fol...
We present a new class of dualities relating non-geometric Calabi-Yau com- pactifications of type II...
We reconsider the study of the geometric transitions and brane/flux dualities in various dimensions....
Abstract: We o®er a derivation of the duality between the topological U(1) gauge theory on a Calabi-...
This article first reviews the calculation of the N = 1 effective action for generic type IIA and ty...
We report on a broad new class of N=1 gauge theory dualities which relate the worldvolume gauge theo...
This article first reviews the calculation of the N = 1 effective action for generic type IIA and ty...
We revisit type I compactifications with a Spin( 32)/Z(2) gauge bundle that admits no vector structu...
International audienceWe present a new class of dualities relating non-geometric Calabi-Yau com- pac...
In the context of string dualities, fibration structures of Calabi-Yau manifolds play a prominent ro...
It seems that all string theories and D = 11 supergravity are different limits of one underlying the...
The method to construct the Calabi-Yau manifolds and their mirrors from K3 surfaces was developed by...
We present a string theoretical description, given in terms of branes and orientifolds wrapping vani...
The theory of coverings of the two-dimensional torus is a standard part of algebraic topology and ha...
We systematically analyse globally consistent SU(5) GUT models on intersecting D7-branes in genuine ...
We offer a derivation of the duality between the topological U(1) gauge theory on a Calabi-Yau 3-fol...
We present a new class of dualities relating non-geometric Calabi-Yau com- pactifications of type II...
We reconsider the study of the geometric transitions and brane/flux dualities in various dimensions....
Abstract: We o®er a derivation of the duality between the topological U(1) gauge theory on a Calabi-...
This article first reviews the calculation of the N = 1 effective action for generic type IIA and ty...
We report on a broad new class of N=1 gauge theory dualities which relate the worldvolume gauge theo...
This article first reviews the calculation of the N = 1 effective action for generic type IIA and ty...
We revisit type I compactifications with a Spin( 32)/Z(2) gauge bundle that admits no vector structu...
International audienceWe present a new class of dualities relating non-geometric Calabi-Yau com- pac...