Colliding singularities in F-theory and phase transitions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00027-8zbMath0925.81241arXivhep-th/9610111OpenAlexW3102771350MaRDI QIDQ674492

Michael Bershadsky, Andrei Johansen

Publication date: 5 March 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610111

zbMATH Keywords

transition pointselliptic Calabi-Yau three-foldstensionless string dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modifications; resolution of singularities (complex-analytic aspects) (32S45) 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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