A geometric realization of confinement

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00465-8zbMath0925.32006arXivhep-th/9608039OpenAlexW3103507612MaRDI QIDQ1815552

Cumrun Vafa, Brian R. Greene, David R. Morrison

Publication date: 12 November 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9608039

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifoldslinear sigma modelquantum correctionsphase boundariesnonperturbative effectsconfining flux tubeHiggs phenomenon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

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