\(K3\) fibrations and softly broken \(N = 4\) supersymmetric gauge theories

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00336-2zbMath0935.81069arXivhep-th/9608104OpenAlexW2063165274MaRDI QIDQ1364408

Rafael Hernández, Cesar A. Gómez, Esperanza Lopez

Publication date: 26 August 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9608104

zbMATH Keywords

Picard-Fuchs equationsglobal geometryHodge number\(K3\) fibration Calabi-Yau threefolds\(U(r+1)\) Donagi-Witten integrable modelKac-Moody level string models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

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