TY - JOUR
T1 - CFT's from Calabi-Yau four-folds
AU - Gukov, Sergei
AU - Vafa, Cumrun
AU - Witten, Edward
N1 - Funding Information:
The work of S.G. was supported in part by grant RFBR No 98-02-16575 and Russian President’s grant No 96-15-96939. The work of C.V. was supported in part by NSF grant PHY-98-02709 and that of E.W. was supported in part by NSF grant PHY-9513835.
PY - 2000/9/18
Y1 - 2000/9/18
N2 - We consider F/M/Type IIA theory compactified to four, three, or two dimensions on a Calabi-Yau four-fold, and study the behavior near an isolated singularity in the presence of appropriate fluxes and branes. We analyze the vacuum and soliton structure of these models, and show that near an isolated singularity, one often generates massless chiral superfields and a superpotential, and in many instances in two or three dimensions one obtains nontrivial superconformal field theories. In the case of two dimensions, we identify some of these theories with certain Kazama-Suzuki coset models, such as the N=2 minimal models.
AB - We consider F/M/Type IIA theory compactified to four, three, or two dimensions on a Calabi-Yau four-fold, and study the behavior near an isolated singularity in the presence of appropriate fluxes and branes. We analyze the vacuum and soliton structure of these models, and show that near an isolated singularity, one often generates massless chiral superfields and a superpotential, and in many instances in two or three dimensions one obtains nontrivial superconformal field theories. In the case of two dimensions, we identify some of these theories with certain Kazama-Suzuki coset models, such as the N=2 minimal models.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00373-4
DO - 10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00373-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034683334
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 584
SP - 69
EP - 108
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
IS - 1-2
ER -