Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Katz, Sheldon
• Klemm, Albrecht
• Vafa, Cumrun

Titel

Geometric engineering of quantum field theories

Ist Teil von

• Nuclear physics. B, 1997-07, Vol.497 (1), p.173-195

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Using the recent advances in our understanding of non-perturbative aspects of type 11 strings we show how non-trivial exact results for N = 2 quantum field theories can be reduced to T-dualities of string theory. This is done by constructing a local geometric realization of quantum field theories together with a local application of mirror symmetry. This construction is not based on any duality conjecture and thus reduces non-trivial quantum field theory results to much better understood T-dualities of type 11 strings. Moreover it can be used in principle to construct in a systematic way the vacuum structure for arbitrary N = 2 gauge theories with matter representations.