Non-perturbative properties of heterotic string vacua compactified on K3 × T2 Original Research Article

Using the heterotic-type II duality of N = 2 string vacua in four space-time dimensions we study non-perturbative couplings of toroidally compactified six-dimensional heterotic vacua. In particular, the heterotic-heterotic S-duality and the Coulomb branch of tensor multiplets observed in six dimensions are studied from a four-dimensional point of view. We explicitly compute the couplings of the vector multiplets of several type II vacua and investigate the implications for their heterotic duals.