Vacua of M-theory and \(N=2\) strings

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00303-3zbMath0925.81193arXivhep-th/9603116OpenAlexW3102092095MaRDI QIDQ1923111

David Kutasov, Martin O'Loughlin, Emil J. Martinec

Publication date: 1 October 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603116

zbMATH Keywords

toroidal compactificationsBorn Infeld effective dynamicsChan Paton fieldsDirichlet two branemembrane dynamics unificationnonvanishing EM fieldstandard moduli spaceworld volume dynamics

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)

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