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Strong coupling expansion of Calabi-Yau compactification

Edward Witten
- 08 Jul 1996 - 
- Vol. 471, Iss: 1, pp 135-158
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In this paper, the equations for unbroken supersymmetry are expanded to the first non-trivial order, near this limit, verifying the consistency of the description and showing how, in some cases, if one tries to make Newton's constant too small, strong coupling develops in one of the two E8's.
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This article is published in Nuclear Physics.The article was published on 1996-07-08 and is currently open access. It has received 928 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Compactification (physics) & Heterotic string theory.

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String theory dynamics in various dimensions

TL;DR: The strong coupling dynamics of string theories in dimension d ⩾ 4 are studied in this paper, where it is argued that eleven-dimensional supergravity arises as a low energy limit of the ten-dimensional Type IIA superstring.
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Heterotic and type I string dynamics from eleven-dimensions

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Evidence for F-theory

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed compact examples of D-manifolds for type IIB strings and showed that the construction has a natural interpretation in terms of compactification of a 12-dimensional ''F-theory''.
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Fivebranes, membranes and non-perturbative string theory

TL;DR: In this article, nonperturbative instanton corrections to the moduli space geometry of type IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau space are derived and found to contain order e − 1/g s contributions, where g s is the string coupling.
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