nLab7d ago

mysterious duality

Urs Schreiber
general mechanisms electric-magnetic duality, Montonen-Olive duality, geometric Langlands duality string-fivebrane duality string-QFT duality QFT-QFT duality: effective QFT incarnations of open/closed string duality, relating (super-)gravity to (super-)Yang-Mills theory: Seiberg duality (swapping NS5-branes) What is called the mysterious duality in Vafa 00, Iqbal-Neitzke-Vafa 01 is a kind of “duality in string theory” in the form of a correspondence between toroidal KK-compactifications of...