BPS states and supersymmetric index in \(N=2\) type I string vacua

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00380-5zbMath0935.81061arXivhep-th/9703049MaRDI QIDQ1366541

Marco Serone, Jose Francisco Morales

Publication date: 10 September 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703049

zbMATH Keywords

Bogomolnyi-Prasad-Sommerfield statesGimon Johnson K3 orientifoldsgravitational superfieldmoduli dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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)

Related Items

Duality of \(N=2\) heterotic-type I compactifications in four dimensions, String duality, automorphic forms, and generalized Kac-Moody algebras, Anomalous couplings for D-branes and O-planes, Higher derivative couplings and heterotic-type I duality in eight dimensions, Four-dimensional \(N=2\) superstring constructions and their (non-)perturbative duality connections

Cites Work

• Aspects of type I-type II-heterotic triality in four dimensions
• Kodaira-Spencer theory of gravity and exact results for quantum string amplitudes
• Unity of superstring dualities.
• Higher derivative \(F\)-terms in \(N=2\) strings
• Massless black holes and conifolds in string theory
• \(N=2\) type II-heterotic duality and higher-derivative \(F\)-terms
• Algebras, BPS states, and strings
• Anomalies, dualities, and topology of \(D=6\;N=1\) superstring vacua
• Threshold effects in open-string theory
• Strings on orientifolds
• \(K3\) orientifolds
• Electric-magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in \(N=2\) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
• Dirichlet Branes and Ramond-Ramond Charges