F-theory and the Gimon-Polchinski orientifold

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00262-9zbMath0979.81564arXivhep-th/9702061MaRDI QIDQ1361925

Ashoke Sen

Publication date: 31 July 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702061

zbMATH Keywords

weak coupling limitcompactified string theoryelliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefoldintersecting orientifold geometrylocal moduli space deformations

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)

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