Holomorphic structure of superstring vacua

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/4/5/018zbMath0635.53078OpenAlexW2055892507MaRDI QIDQ3774532

Krzysztof Pilch, Nicholas P. Warner

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/4/5/018

zbMATH Keywords

Virasoro algebraString theoryquantum field theoriesvacuum statesholomorphic line bundlesghostdiffeomorphisms of the circle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Groups of diffeomorphisms and homeomorphisms as manifolds (58D05) Applications of quantum theory to specific physical systems (81V99) Holomorphic bundles and generalizations (32L05)

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