The heterotic string is a soliton

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00310-OzbMath1003.81517arXivhep-th/9504047MaRDI QIDQ1895320

Andrew Strominger, Jeffrey A. Harvey

Publication date: 15 August 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9504047

zbMATH Keywords

K3 surfacestring solitonsdegeneration pointsexact dualityRamond Ramond fieldsself dual lattice

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

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Type IIA-heterotic duals with maximal supersymmetry, Small instantons in string theory, Counting dyons in four-dimensional \(N=4\) string theory, Notes on Matrix and micro strings, Counting dyons in \(N=4\) string theory

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