Infinite distances in field space and massless towers of states

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2018)143zbMath1396.81151arXiv1802.08264OpenAlexW2788662179MaRDI QIDQ1783870

Irene Valenzuela, Eran Palti, Thomas W. Grimm

Publication date: 21 September 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08264

zbMATH Keywords

D-branessuperstring vacuadifferential and algebraic geometryeffective field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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