Tuesday, September 19, 2017

What is the physical meaning of enhanced gauge symmetries in string compactifications?


For some very special cases of string compactification backgrounds, we get mysterious enhanced gauge symmetries. What is their physical meaning, and why do they arise? Is there any geometrical interpretation for the enhanced gauge symmetries?




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