New Higgs transitions between dual \(N=2\) string models

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00450-6zbMath0925.14012arXivhep-th/9605154OpenAlexW2008034306MaRDI QIDQ1816803

Per Berglund, Albrecht Klemm, Peter Mayr, Sheldon Katz

Publication date: 28 November 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605154

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifoldsCoulomb phasedual heterotic string theoryenhanced nonabelian gauge symmetrieslocal singularity geometryN=2 type II Calabi-Yau vacuasemiclassical gauge group Higgsingtopologically distinct vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

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