Duality between the webs of heterotic and type II vacua

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00410-5zbMath0947.81054arXivhep-th/9603170OpenAlexW3103509747MaRDI QIDQ1569663

Anamaría Font, Philip Candelas

Publication date: 3 July 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603170

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 deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

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