Twisted differential string and fivebrane structures
DOI10.1007/s00220-012-1510-3zbMath1252.81110arXiv0910.4001MaRDI QIDQ455683
Urs Schreiber, Hisham Sati, James D. Stasheff
Publication date: 22 October 2012
Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4001
14N35: Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects)
81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory
81T50: Anomalies in quantum field theory
53C28: Twistor methods in differential geometry
14D21: Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory)
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