Multiple realisations of \(N=1\) vacua in six dimensions

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00439-7zbMath0925.81205arXivhep-th/9606176OpenAlexW2044882085MaRDI QIDQ1923550

Clifford V. Johnson, Eric G. Gimon

Publication date: 8 October 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9606176

zbMATH Keywords

heterotic string theoryCalabi-Yau 3-foldsK3 surfacenonperturbative phenomenasmall instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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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