Stringy geometry from F-theory

DOI10.1002/PROP.201500086MaRDI QIDQ2815170zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefano Massai

Publication date 27 June 2016

Published in Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/prop.201500086

zbMATH Keywords

D-branesduality defectF-theorystring duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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• 26-dimensional string from 4-dimensional geometry
• The monodromy of T-folds and T-fects
• Ubiquity of non-geometry in heterotic compactifications
• Unwinding strings in semi-flatland
• Non-geometric vacua of the Spin(32)/\({\mathbb{Z}}_2\) heterotic string and little string theories
• A note on T-folds and \(T^3\) fibrations
• Geometries, non-geometries, and fluxes
• Geometric constructions of nongeometric string theories

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