Novel field theory phenomena from F theory and D-branes

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00528-8zbMath0985.81677arXivhep-th/9705143MaRDI QIDQ5927406

Jacob Sonnenschein

Publication date: 8 March 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705143

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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