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Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2996 - 2999 (1998)

Matrix Description of Calabi-Yau Compactifications

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Shamit Kachru1, Albion Lawrence2, and Eva Silverstein3
1Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, and Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
2Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
3Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94309

Featured in Phys. Rev. Focus Received 14 January 1998

We point out that the matrix description of M theory compactified on Calabi-Yau threefolds is in many respects simpler than the matrix description of a T6 compactification. This is largely because of the differences between D6-branes wrapped on Calabi-Yau threefolds and D6-branes wrapped on six-tori. In particular, if we define the matrix theory following the prescription on Sen and Seiberg, we find that the remaining degrees of freedom are decoupled from gravity.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2996
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2996
PACS: 11.25.Mj

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