A Comment on BPS States in F-theory in 8 Dimensions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We study some aspects of enhanced gauge symmetries in F-theory compactified on K3. We find open string configurations connecting various 7-branes which represent stable BPS states. In this approach we recover and gauge groups previously found from an analysis of sigularities of the moduli space of elliptically fibered K3 manifolds as well as examples of non-perturbative realizations of groups.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9608186,
title = {A Comment on BPS States in F-theory in 8 Dimensions},
author = {A. Johansen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9608186},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
harvmac tex, 8 pages