A test of the chiral \(E_8\) current algebra on a 6D non-critical string

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00462-2zbMath0925.81202arXivhep-th/9607020MaRDI QIDQ1923547

Ori J. Ganor

Publication date: 8 October 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607020

zbMATH Keywords

bound states; irreducible curves; elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

32J81: Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences

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