String Junctions and Their Duals in Heterotic String Theory

TL;DR

This paper establishes a detailed correspondence between heterotic string spectra on T^2 and string junctions in type IIB theory on S^2, enhancing understanding of dualities in string theory.

Contribution

It explicitly constructs the mapping between heterotic string spectra and type IIB string junctions, providing new insights into string dualities.

Findings

Explicit correspondence between heterotic spectra and string junctions

Enhanced understanding of heterotic/type IIB duality

Framework for analyzing string junctions in dual theories

Abstract

We explicitly give the correspondence between spectra of heterotic string theory compactified on $T^2$ and string junctions in type IIB theory compactified on $S^2$.