Dirichlet Joyce manifolds, discrete torsion and duality

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00163-6zbMath0937.81055arXivhep-th/9611036OpenAlexW3103336443MaRDI QIDQ678315

Bobby Samir Acharya

Publication date: 16 April 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9611036

zbMATH Keywords

compactificationM theorygeneralised mirror conjecturePapadopoulos Townsend conjectureperturbative type IIA string theory

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) Compact complex (n)-folds (32J18)

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