Conifold transitions and aspects of duality

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00557-3zbMath0925.14013arXivhep-th/9511058MaRDI QIDQ2565120

Rolf Schimmrigk, Monika Lynker

Publication date: 8 January 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9511058

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau manifolds; weighted manifolds; string vacua; orbifold singularities; heterotic N=2 compactifications

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83E30: String and superstring theories in gravitational theory

14J32: Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects)

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

32J81: Applications of compact analytic spaces to the sciences

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