Lectures on Orientifolds and Duality

Abstract

This is an introduction to orientifolds with emphasis on applications to duality. Based on lectures given at the 1997 Trieste Summer School on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Italy.

64 pages, LaTeX, 13 epsf figures

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• Duality Twists, Orbifolds, and Fluxes
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• Generalized N=1 Orientifold Compactifications and the Hitchin functionals
• Why are fractional charges of orientifolds compatible with Dirac quantization?
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• Seven-branes and Supersymmetry
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• Three Avatars of Mock Modularity
• Mechanisms for Supersymmetry Breaking in Open String Vacua