Duality of \(N=2\) heterotic-type I compactifications in four dimensions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00322-2zbMath0934.81039arXivhep-th/9703076OpenAlexW3100682874MaRDI QIDQ1362690

Hervé Partouche, Ignatios Antoniadis, Tomasz R. Taylor

Publication date: 6 August 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703076

zbMATH Keywords

Coulomb phaseBogomolnyi Prasad Sommerfield statesKähler potentialsSU(16) Wilson linesweak coupling compactifications

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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