Stable singularities in string theory (with an appendix by Mark Gross)

DOI10.1007/BF02104911zbMath0854.53059arXivhep-th/9503208OpenAlexW3105069742MaRDI QIDQ1924013

Paul S. Aspinwall, David R. Morrison

Publication date: 13 January 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9503208

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryorbifoldscorrelation functions\(N = 2\) nonlinear \(\sigma\)-modeltarget space singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

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