F-theory on \(K3\times K3\) and instantons on \(7\)-branes

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00636-6zbMath0953.81078arXivhep-th/9703194MaRDI QIDQ1569632

Michael Bershadsky, Vladimir Sadov

Publication date: 3 July 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703194

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) 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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