Unification of M- and F-theory Calabi-Yau fourfold vacua

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)89481-3zbMath0973.14509arXivhep-th/9610195OpenAlexW3098344550MaRDI QIDQ1361926

Rolf Schimmrigk, Ilka Brunner, Monika Lynker

Publication date: 31 July 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610195

zbMATH Keywords

dualitystringssingular varietiesconifold transitionsCalabi-Yau fourfold webmoduli space connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81) Compact complex (n)-folds (32J18)

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