The mathematics of fivebranes

zbMath0972.81136arXivhep-th/9810157MaRDI QIDQ1126805

Robbert Dijkgraaf

Publication date: 5 August 1998

Published in: Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9810157

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryKac-Moody algebrasquantum field theoryvector bundles on surfacesCalabi-Yau threefoldsstring theoryelliptic generatwo-dimensionalnon-perturbativeautomorphisms forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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