Special geometry and automorphic forms

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00396-9zbMath0979.81574arXivhep-th/9703195OpenAlexW2119112681MaRDI QIDQ1367552

Niclas Wyllard, Per Berglund, Måns Henningson

Publication date: 24 September 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703195

zbMATH Keywords

singularity structureheterotic string compactificationmoduli space geometrycovariant transformsenhanced gauge symmetryK3 fibered Calabi Yau threefoldsnonperturbative levelrational quadratic divisorsvector multiplet moduli space

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 global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Other groups and their modular and automorphic forms (several variables) (11F55)

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