A note on heterotic/type I′ duality and D0 brane quantum mechanics
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In the note a simple calculation of one loop threshold corrections for the SO(32) heterotic string is performed. In particular the compactification on T 2 with a Wilson line breaking the gauge group to SO(16)×SO(16) is considered. Using heterotic type I duality, these corrections can be related to quantities appearing in the quantum mechanics of type I ′ D0 particles. February 1999 1 email: [email protected]
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