Evidence for heterotic/heterotic duality

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00059-4zbMath1002.81524arXivhep-th/9601036OpenAlexW2018485002WikidataQ64038266 ScholiaQ64038266MaRDI QIDQ1910472

Ruben Minasian, Edward Witten, Michael J. Duff

Publication date: 10 April 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9601036

zbMATH Keywords

compactification antisymmetric tensor selfduality gauge field exchange

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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