From M-theory to F-theory, with branes

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00550-6MaRDI QIDQ1371643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Clifford V. Johnson

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/9706155

zbMATH Keywords

geometryM-theory backgroundsN=2 supersymmetrynonperturbative dynamicsnontrivial F-theory backgrounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: A duality relationship between certain brane configurations in type IIA and type IIB string theory is explored by exploiting the geometrical origins of each theory in M-theory. The configurations are dual ways of realising the non-perturbative dynamics of a four dimensional N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory with four or fewer favours of fermions in the fundamental, and the spectral curve which organizes these dynamics plays a prominent role in each case. This is an illustration of how non-trivial F-theory backgrounds follow from M-theory ones, hopefully demystifying somewhat the origins of the former.

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