Basics of F-theory from the Type IIB Perspective

Abstract

These short lecture notes provide an introduction to some basic notions of F-theory with some special emphasis on its relation to Type IIB orientifolds with O7/O3-planes.

7 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the 9th Hellenic School on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity, Corfu 2009

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