Black hole condensation and the unification of string vacua

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00371-XzbMath0908.53041arXivhep-th/9504145OpenAlexW3103699447WikidataQ55885834 ScholiaQ55885834MaRDI QIDQ1898632

David R. Morrison, Andrew Strominger, B. B. Greene

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/9504145

zbMATH Keywords

mirror symmetry Euler characteristic moduli space string theory condensate Hodge numbers smooth transition Calabi Yau manifolds string vacua black hole condensation conifold singularities elementary string states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)

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