Holomorphic vector bundles and non-perturbative vacua in M-theory

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/1999/06/034zbMath0952.14033arXivhep-th/9901009MaRDI QIDQ1588614

André Lukas, Burt A. Ovrut, Daniel Waldram, Ron Y. Donagi

Publication date: 4 December 2000

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9901009

zbMATH Keywords

del Pezzo surfaces; Hirzebruch surfaces; elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau three-folds; non-perturbative vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

14J60: Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli

14J32: Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects)

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

81T50: Anomalies in quantum field theory

81T16: Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory

14J81: Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics

14D21: Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory)

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