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Non-supersymmetric string dualities from S^1 v S^1

Speaker
Zihni Baykara
Date
Mon May 4th 2026, 2:00 - 3:30pm
Affiliation
Harvard
Event Sponsor
Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stanford
Location
Varian 355

Perturbative strings describe only certain limits of quantum gravity. In the supersymmetric setting, dualities unify those limits into the broader M-/F-theory framework. Non-supersymmetric string theories have long stood outside this unifying picture. I will present evidence that the missing bridge is the quantum geometry S^1 v S^1, realizing the Type 0A string. Natural quotients and variants of this geometry realize the remaining non-supersymmetric strings, including bosonic strings. This suggests a non-supersymmetric completion of the M-/F-theoretic duality web.