Small instantons in string theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00625-7zbMath0935.81052arXivhep-th/9511030OpenAlexW3104173922MaRDI QIDQ1906828

Publication date: 23 January 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9511030

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theory enhanced gauge symmetry ADHM instanton construction higher rank vacua nonperturbative phenomenon soliton strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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