TY - JOUR
T1 - Mirror symmetry as a gauge symmetry
AU - Giveon, Amit
AU - Witten, Edward
N1 - Funding Information:
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.
PY - 1994/7/14
Y1 - 1994/7/14
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(94)90856-7
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(94)90856-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002453130
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 332
SP - 44
EP - 50
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 1-2
ER -