On the Higgsing and UnHiggsing of Fano 3-folds

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2012)090zbMath1306.81270arXiv1108.4237MaRDI QIDQ2261419

Tapobrata Sarkar, Prabwal Phukon

Publication date: 6 March 2015

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4237

zbMATH Keywords

M-theory; D-branes; AdS-CFT correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

14M25: Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

81T20: Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

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