$D$-branes and topological field theories

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00026-0zbMath1004.81560arXivhep-th/9511222OpenAlexW2059707231MaRDI QIDQ1909493

Vladimir Sadov, Cumrun Vafa, Michael Bershadsky

Publication date: 13 March 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9511222

zbMATH Keywords

quantum correction Calabi Yau manifolds exceptional holonomy groups exceptional holonomy manifolds partially twisted topological field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) 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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