A One-Loop Test Of String Duality

Cumrun Vafa; Edward Witten

A One-Loop Test Of String Duality

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arxiv hep-th/9505053 v1 pith:ZCM6IG73 submitted 1995-05-09 hep-th

A One-Loop Test Of String Duality

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We test type IIA-heterotic string duality in six dimensions by showing that the sigma model anomaly of the heterotic string is generated by a combination of a tree level and a string one-loop correction on the type IIA side.

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