The mathematics of fivebranes

zbMath0972.81136arXivhep-th/9810157MaRDI QIDQ1126805

Publication date: 5 August 1998

Published in: Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9810157

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theory; Kac-Moody algebras; quantum field theory; vector bundles on surfaces; Calabi-Yau threefolds; string theory; elliptic genera; two-dimensional; non-perturbative; automorphisms forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B67: Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

11F22: Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups

14J32: Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects)

81R10: Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations

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

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