The paper constructs arbitrary networks of 10d non-tachyonic heterotic string theories via cobordism-implied junctions and gives worldsheet realizations for graphs, higher-dimensional networks, and compact configurations with sectors on different spaces.
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M-theory on ${\mathbf{S}}^1\vee{\mathbf{S}}^1$ has recently been proposed to yield, via quotients, ten-dimensional non-supersymmetric string theories. We revisit the construction that leads to the heterotic theories, finding a consistent set of rules that reproduces the light spectra and gauge groups, including indications of their global structure. Our approach uses the gauge enhancement mechanism of type I' string theory, applied to a setting in which the type I' interval is curled onto itself, with its two boundaries separated by a branch cut. Using these tools, we reproduce the ten-dimensional heterotic theories and provide some evidence for junctions among them.
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The Art of Networking: Networks of Trivalent 10d Heterotic Junctions
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Non-supersymmetric dualities beyond the gauge algebra
Verification of Blum-Dienes and Bergman-Gaberdiel dualities shows agreement in gauge group global forms from orientifold brane states and internal lattices, with one subtle projection exception.
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