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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 90, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.126012
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- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Government of Canada through Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development Innovation
- NSF [DMS-1159412, PHY-1067976]
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E-strings arise from M2 branes suspended between an M5 brane and an M9 plane. In this paper we obtain explicit expressions for the elliptic genus of two E-strings using a series of string dualities. Moreover we show how this can be used to recover the elliptic genus of two E-8 x E-8 heterotic strings using the Horava-Witten realization of heterotic strings in M-theory. This involves highly nontrivial identities among Jacobi forms and is remarkable in light of the fact that E-strings are sticky and form bound states whereas heterotic strings do not form bound states.
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