D-branes and twelve dimensions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00247-2zbMath0979.81562arXivhep-th/9701117MaRDI QIDQ1358756

Supriya Kar

Publication date: 18 June 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9701117

zbMATH Keywords

compactification; F-theory; field equations; metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83E30: String and superstring theories in gravitational theory

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

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