\(F\)-theory and orientifolds

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00347-1zbMath0925.81181arXivhep-th/9605150OpenAlexW3098912958MaRDI QIDQ1920753

Publication date: 13 August 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605150

zbMATH Keywords

string compactification nonperturbative effects triality action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) 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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