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Some Details On The Gopakumar-Vafa and Ooguri-Vafa Formulas
Mykola Dedushenko, Edward Witten
The Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) formula expresses certain couplings that arise in Type IIA compactification to four dimensions on a Calabi-Yau manifold in terms of a counting of BPS states…
Branes And Supergroups
Victor Mikhaylov, Edward Witten
Extending previous work that involved D3-branes ending on a fivebrane with , we consider a similar two-sided problem. This construction, in case the fivebran…
Super Atiyah classes and obstructions to splitting of supermoduli space
Ron Donagi, Edward Witten
The first obstruction to splitting a supermanifold S is one of the three components of its super Atiyah class, the two other components being the ordinary Atiyah classes on the red…
Supersymmetry Breaking Effects using the Pure Spinor Formalism of the Superstring
Nathan Berkovits, Edward Witten
The SO(32) heterotic superstring on a Calabi-Yau manifold can spontaneously break supersymmetry at one-loop order even when it is unbroken at tree-level. It is known that calculati…
The Expansion On A Compact Manifold Of Exceptional Holonomy
Katrin Becker, Daniel Robbins, Edward Witten
In the approximation corresponding to the classical Einstein equations, which is valid at large radius, string theory compactification on a compact manifold of or $\mathr…
A Note On Einstein, Bergmann, and the Fifth Dimension
Edward Witten
This note is devoted to a detail concerning the work of Albert Einstein and Peter Bergmann on unified theories of electromagnetism and gravitation in five dimensions. In their pape…