F-theory, geometric engineering and \(N=1\) dualities

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00392-1zbMath0925.14018arXivhep-th/9612052MaRDI QIDQ1371583

Tony G. Pantev, Cumrun Vafa, Andrei Johansen, Michael Bershadsky, Vladimir Sadov

Publication date: 29 October 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9612052

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental representationsT-dualityHiggs branchF-theory compactificationSeiberg dualityCalabi Yau fourfoldlocal compactification modelN=1 SUSY quantum field theorieswrapped Euclidean 3 branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) 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) Compact complex (n)-folds (32J18)

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