E9 symmetry in the heterotic string on S1 and the weak gravity conjecture
E9 symmetry in the heterotic string on S1 and the weak gravity conjecture
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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bstract
We show that compactifications of the heterotic string on a circle exhibit at the boundary of moduli space (
R →
0, or equivalently the decompactification limit
R → ∞
) a tower of winding or momentum modes that enhance the
E
8
×E
8
or SO(32) gauge symmetry to the affine algebras (
E
9
⊕
E
9<...
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E9 symmetry in the heterotic string on S1 and the weak gravity conjecture
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2781038876
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2781038876
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1029-8479
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1029-8479
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10.1007/JHEP06(2022)083
