Mathematics underlying the F-theory/heterotic string duality in eight dimensions

DOI10.1007/s00220-004-1270-9zbMath1066.14051arXivmath/0308106OpenAlexW3104615391MaRDI QIDQ1776112

Adrian Clingher, John W. Morgan

Publication date: 20 May 2005

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0308106

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) 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) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21)

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