Ubiquity of non-geometry in heterotic compactifications

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2017)046zbMath1377.83116arXiv1611.10291OpenAlexW2557802232MaRDI QIDQ1692923

Stefano Massai, Iñaki García-Etxebarria, Christoph Mayrhofer, Dieter Lüst

Publication date: 10 January 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.10291

zbMATH Keywords

string dualityF-theorysuperstring vacuasuperstrings and heterotic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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