Fivebranes, membranes and non-perturbative string theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00487-1zbMath0925.81161arXivhep-th/9507158OpenAlexW2949293231MaRDI QIDQ1901441

Andrew Strominger, Melanie Becker, Katrin Becker

Publication date: 15 November 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9507158

zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetry Kähler form extremal maps moduli space geometry nonperturbative string theory Calabi Yau space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

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