Consistency conditions for branes at orbifold singularities

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00450-1zbMath0925.81263arXivhep-th/9705030MaRDI QIDQ1371620

Julie D. Blum, Kenneth Intriligator

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/9705030

zbMATH Keywords

spacetime; orientifold constructions; heterotic string theory phases

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

81T50: Anomalies in quantum field theory

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