Geometric engineering of quantum field theories

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00282-4zbMath0935.81058arXivhep-th/9609239OpenAlexW2074605073MaRDI QIDQ1358760

Sheldon Katz, Albrecht Klemm, Cumrun Vafa

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/9609239

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifolds quantum corrections Yang-Mills theories vacuum structure $T$-dualities local geometric realization nontrivial exact results spacetime instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) 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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