nLab David Morrison

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Selected writings

On F-theory KK-compactified on Calabi-Yau manifolds and duality between F-theory and heterotic string theory:

• David Morrison, Cumrun Vafa, Compactifications of F-Theory on Calabi–Yau Threefolds – I, Nucl. Phys. B473 (1996) 74-92 (arXiv:hep-th/9602114)

• David Morrison, Cumrun Vafa, Compactifications of F-Theory on Calabi–Yau Threefolds – II, Nucl. Phys. B476:437-469, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9603161)

and in relation to the duality between M-theory and heterotic string theory:

• Bobby Acharya, Alex Kinsella, David Morrison, Non-Perturbative Heterotic Duals of M-Theory on $G_2$ Orbifolds (arXiv:2106.03886)

On the D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT on heterotic M5-branes and their KK-compactifications:

• Ori Ganor, David Morrison, Nathan Seiberg, Branes, Calabi-Yau Spaces, and Toroidal Compactification of the $N=1$ Six-Dimensional $E_8$ Theory, Nucl. Phys. B487:93-127, 1997 (arXiv:hep-th/9610251)

On small instantons under duality between F-theory and heterotic string theory:

• Paul Aspinwall, Mark Gross, The $SO(32)$ Heterotic String on a K3 Surface, Phys. Lett. B387 (1996) 735-742 (arXiv:hep-th/9605131)

• Paul Aspinwall, David Morrison, Point-like Instantons on K3 Orbifolds, Nucl. Phys. B503 (1997) 533-564 (arXiv:hep-th/9705104)

On string theory vacua compactified on orbifolds and orientifolds:

• Jan de Boer, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Kentaro Hori, Arjan Keurentjes, John Morgan, David Morrison, Savdeep Sethi, section 3 of Triples, Fluxes, and Strings, Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 4 (2002) 995-1186 (arXiv:hep-th/0103170)

On ADE-singularities in string theory:

• Paul Aspinwall, David Morrison, Point-like Instantons on K3 Orbifolds, Nucl. Phys. B503 (1997) 533-564 (arXiv:hep-th/9705104)

Also:

• David Morrison, M. Ronen Plesser, Non-Spherical Horizons, I, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys.3:1-81, 1999 (arXiv:hep-th/9810201)

• Lectures on K3-singularities in string theory (here)

One of the editors and organizers of

• Pierre Deligne, Pavel Etingof, Dan Freed, Lisa Jeffrey, David Kazhdan, John Morgan, David R. Morrison, Edward Witten, (eds.), Quantum Fields and Strings

Related $n$Lab entries

• K3 surface

• conifold transition

• discrete torsion

• moduli space of Calabi-Yau spaces

• F/M-theory on elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau 3-folds

• geometric engineering of quantum field theory

• duality between F-theory and heterotic string theory

• superdeterminant

• chiral algebra

• ADE classification

• associative submanifold

• mirror symmetry

• supergeometry

• little string theory

• spin geometry

• fractional D-brane

• 6d (2,0)-superconformal QFT

• M-theory on 8-manifolds

  8-manifold, exotic 7-sphere

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