Mirror symmetry as a gauge symmetry

Amit Giveon; Edward Witten

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(94)90856-7

Mirror symmetry as a gauge symmetry

Amit Giveon, Edward Witten

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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 (US)
Pages (from-to)	44-50
Number of pages	7
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	332
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(94)90856-7
State	Published - Jul 14 1994
Externally published	Yes

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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