Non-critical strings, del Pezzo singularities and Seiberg-Witten curves

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00312-XzbMath0934.81036arXivhep-th/9612085OpenAlexW3100733225WikidataQ125754391 ScholiaQ125754391MaRDI QIDQ1362695

Wolfgang Lerche, Peter Mayr, Nicholas P. Warner

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/9612085

zbMATH Keywords

dualitymeromorphic differentialsmoduli space geometryBogomolnyi Prasad Sommerfield spectrum\(E_8\) symmetry4D type II Calabi-Yau compactificationfull string theory subsectorsnonperturbative description

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) 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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