From topology to generalised dimensional reduction

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)80036-3zbMath1004.81545OpenAlexW1990457769MaRDI QIDQ678305

I. V. Lavrinenko, Hong Lü, Christopher N. Pope

Publication date: 16 April 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0550-3213(97)80036-3

zbMATH Keywords

differential formsCalabi-Yau manifold7D Joyce manifoldhigher-dimensional potentialsinternal manifoldtoroidal Kaluza-Klein reductionvertical dimensional reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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