Supercoset CFTs for string theories on non-compact special holonomy manifolds

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00148-2zbMath1023.81030arXivhep-th/0301164WikidataQ125273274 ScholiaQ125273274MaRDI QIDQ1868926

Yuji Sugawara, Tohru Eguchi, Satoshi Yamaguchi

Publication date: 9 April 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0301164

zbMATH Keywords

affine Lie algebrasconical singularitiessuperstring vacuaRicci flatEinstein homogeneous spaceweak \(G_2\) structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

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