A note on heterotic/type I' duality and D0 brane quantum mechanics

Abstract

In this 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) x 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.

16 pages, harvmac, no figures, v2: references added, typos and eq. (4.16) corrected, v3: typos fixed and one reference added, version to appear in JHEP

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