M-theory on eight-manifolds

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00367-7zbMath0925.81190arXivhep-th/9605053OpenAlexW2078394503MaRDI QIDQ1921583

Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker

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/9605053

zbMATH Keywords

conformal transformationRicci flat metricinternal spaceChern Simons corrections3D Minkowski spacetimefivebrane Bianchi identityKähler flat metricpreserved N=2 supersymmetry

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)

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