SMALL INSTANTONS, DEL-PEZZO SURFACES AND TYPE I' THEORY

Authors
DOUGLAS MR KATZ S VAFA C
Citation
Mr. Douglas et al., SMALL INSTANTONS, DEL-PEZZO SURFACES AND TYPE I' THEORY, Nuclear physics. B, 497(1-2), 1997, pp. 155-172
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B → ACNP
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
497
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
155 - 172
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1997)497:1-2<155:SIDSAT>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Small instantons of exceptional groups arise geometrically by a collap sing del Pezzo surface in a CY. We use this to explain the physics of a 4-brane probe in type I' compactification to nine dimensions. (C) 19 97 Elsevier Science B.V.