Massless black holes and conifolds in string theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00287-3zbMath0925.83071arXivhep-th/9504090OpenAlexW2052626565WikidataQ56386873 ScholiaQ56386873MaRDI QIDQ1898630

Andrew Strominger

Publication date: 20 September 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9504090

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi Yau string compactifications low energy effective field theories massless Ramond Ramond black holes smooth Wilsonian effective action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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