Enhanced gauge symmetry in type II string theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00331-8zbMath0925.81188arXivhep-th/9601108OpenAlexW3104900713MaRDI QIDQ1921581

David R. Morrison, M. Ronen Plesser, Sheldon Katz

Publication date: 27 August 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9601108

zbMATH Keywords

Higgs branch compactified string theory target space geometry massless states Calabi Yau threefold adjoint hypermultiplets period integral monodromy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81) Deformations of complex singularities; vanishing cycles (32S30)

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