JHEP, 07, 169 (2025)
New BPS state from bosonic/heterotic duality
Kai-Peng Lu1, Hong Lu1,2 and Liang Ma1
1 Center for Joint Quantum Studies, Department of Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China.
2 Joint School of National University of Singapore and Tianjin University, International Campus of Tianjin University, Binhai New City, Fuzhou 350207, China.
* mrhonglu@gmail.com, maliang0@tju.edu.cn
Abstract
In this paper, we consider the recently proposed bosonic/heterotic duality that relates the heterotic superstrings to the noncritical bosonic string. Although the latter is nonsupersym metric, it can be viewed as pseudo-supersymmetric in that the theory admits a consistent set of Killing spinor equations whose integrability conditions are satisfied by the equations of motion. We construct two classes of the dual pairs of BPS and pseudo-BPS solutions in the respective heterotic and bosonic strings and obtain their explicit Killing spinors. The existence of such dual pairs lends support to the proposed duality.
