Mirror symmetry as a gauge symmetry

Amit Giveon; Edward Witten

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Mirror symmetry as a gauge symmetry

Amit Giveon^*, Edward Witten

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Racah Institute of Physics

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It is shown that in string theory mirror duality is a gauge symmetry (a Weyl transformation) in the moduli space of N = 2 backgrounds on group manifolds, and we conjecture on the possible generalization to other backgrounds, such as Calabi-Yau manifolds.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	44-50
Number of pages	7
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	332
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(94)90856-7
State	Published - 14 Jul 1994

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Research of E.W. is supported in part by NSF grant PHY92-45317. Research of A.G. is supported in part by BSF - American-Israeli Bi-National Science Foundation and by an Alon fellowship.

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