YUKAWA COUPLINGS BETWEEN (2,1)-FORMS

Journal article

The compactification of superstrings leads to an effective field theory for which the space-time manifold is the product of a four-dimensional Minkowski space with a six-dimensional Calabi-Yau space. The particles that are massless in the four-dimensional world correspond to differential forms of type (1, 1) and of type (2, 1) on the Calabi-Yau space. The Yukawa couplings between the families correspond to certain integrals involving three differential forms. For an important class of Calabi-...

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Authors: Candelas, P

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
• Volume: 298
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 458-492
• Publication date: 1988-03-14
• DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(88)90351-3
• ISSN: 0550-3213
• Language: English