On four-dimensional compactifications of \(F\)-theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00393-3zbMath0925.14019arXivhep-th/9701165MaRDI QIDQ1371584

Andrei Johansen, Tony G. Pantev, Vladimir Sadov, Michael Bershadsky

Publication date: 29 October 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9701165

zbMATH Keywords

geometrysupersymmetryinstanton bundlesweb structureCalabi Yau fourfoldmoduli space branches

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) 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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