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Peegelsümmeetria is a concept in theoretical physics, particularly in string theory and related areas, that describes a symmetry between different types of theories that arise from compactifying extra spatial dimensions. When string theory is compactified on a Calabi-Yau manifold, it can lead to a variety of different four-dimensional theories. Peegelsümmeetria suggests that these different theories are not fundamentally distinct but are related by a duality transformation.

This duality often relates a theory with a certain set of coupling constants to another theory with different coupling constants, where the transformation can involve inverting or exchanging certain parameters. For instance, a theory that appears strongly coupled might be equivalent to a theory that is weakly coupled under a peegelsümmeetria transformation. This is analogous to how electric and magnetic charges can be interchanged in some theories.

The idea of peegelsümmeetria is that the landscape of possible string theory vacua is not as vast and disconnected as it might initially appear. Instead, many seemingly different solutions can be viewed as different perspectives on the same underlying physical reality. This concept has been crucial in understanding the structure of string theory and in developing dualities like S-duality and T-duality, which are specific examples of peegelsümmeetria. It helps to unify different theoretical frameworks and provides powerful tools for calculations that would otherwise be intractable.