English

String Islands

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-07-10 v3

Abstract

We discuss string theories with small numbers of non-compact moduli and describe constructions of string theories whose low-energy limit is described by various pure supergravity theories. We also construct a D=4,N=4 compactification of type II string theory with 34 vector fields.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9809122,
  title  = {String Islands},
  author = {Atish Dabholkar and Jeffrey A. Harvey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9809122},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

An erroneous example removed. We thank Massimo Bianchi and Cumrun Vafa for pointing out this error