Duality, Equivalence, Mass and The Quest For The Vacuum

TL;DR

This paper explores the significance of duality and self-duality in string theory and quantum mechanics, proposing their potential role in vacuum selection and foundational understanding of quantum gravity and mass origin.

Contribution

It introduces a novel perspective linking string vacuum selection to duality principles and discusses their implications for quantum gravity and mass origin.

Findings

Self-duality may influence string vacuum selection.

Duality principles offer new insights into quantum gravity.

Connections between string theory and quantum mechanics foundations are proposed.

Abstract

I contemplate the possibility that the mismatch between the maximally symmetric point (the free fermionic point) and the strictly self-dual point in the Narain moduli space plays a role in the string vacuum selection. The role of self-duality in the recent formulation of quantum mechanics from an equivalence postulate, and the new perspective that it offers on the foundations of quantum gravity and the origin of mass, are discussed.