Branes, Calabi-Yau spaces, and toroidal compactification of the $N=1$ six-dimensional $E_8$ theory

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00690-6zbMath0925.14015arXivhep-th/9610251OpenAlexW2049401538WikidataQ59711327 ScholiaQ59711327MaRDI QIDQ1349325

Ori J. Ganor, Nathan Seiberg, David R. Morrison

Publication date: 5 February 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610251

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theories toroidal compactification F-theory compactification singularities M theory compactification nontrivial fixed points world-sheet instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

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Branes, Calabi-Yau spaces, and toroidal compactification of the \(N=1\) six-dimensional \(E_8\) theory