Small instantons in string theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00625-7zbMath0935.81052arXivhep-th/9511030MaRDI QIDQ1906828

Publication date: 23 January 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9511030

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theory; enhanced gauge symmetry; ADHM instanton construction; higher rank vacua; nonperturbative phenomenon; soliton strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58Z05: Applications of global analysis to the sciences

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

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