Non-Abelian conifold transitions and \(N=4\) dualities in three dimensions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00529-4zbMath0934.81049arXivhep-th/9705220WikidataQ59197292 ScholiaQ59197292MaRDI QIDQ1367570

Cumrun Vafa, Hirosi Ooguri, Kentaro Hori

Publication date: 24 September 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705220

zbMATH Keywords

geometryT-dualityLagrangian systemHiggs mechanismCalabi-Yau 3-fold compactificationperturbative string theory symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Modifications; resolution of singularities (complex-analytic aspects) (32S45) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81)

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