{
  "id": "hep-th/9602022",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1996-02-05T20:42:02.000Z",
  "updated": "1996-02-05T20:42:02.000Z",
  "title": "Evidence for F-Theory",
  "authors": [
    "Cumrun Vafa"
  ],
  "comment": "18 pages",
  "journal": "Nucl.Phys.B469:403-418,1996",
  "doi": "10.1016/0550-3213(96)00172-1",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We construct compact examples of D-manifolds for type IIB strings. The construction has a natural interpretation in terms of compactification of a 12 dimensional `F-theory'. We provide evidence for a more natural reformulation of type IIB theory in terms of F-theory. Compactification of M-theory on a manifold $K$ which admits elliptic fibration is equivalent to compactification of F-theory on $K\\times S^1$. A large class of $N=1$ theories in 6 dimensions are obtained by compactification of F-theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds. A class of phenomenologically promising compactifications of F-theory is on $Spin(7)$ holonomy manifolds down to 4 dimensions. This may provide a concrete realization of Witten's proposal for solving the cosmological constant problem in four dimensions.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1996-02-05T20:42:02.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "02.40.Sf",
      "11.27.+d"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "compactification",
      "construct compact examples",
      "type iib strings",
      "type iib theory",
      "admits elliptic fibration"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article",
      "famous paper"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "Elsevier",
      "journal": "Nucl. Phys. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 18,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 415759
    }
  }
}