D-brane topology changing transitions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00246-6zbMath1031.81609arXivhep-th/9711124OpenAlexW2003970141MaRDI QIDQ1570485

Brian R. Greene

Publication date: 11 July 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711124

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) 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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