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CFT’s from Calabi-Yau four-folds. (English) Zbl 0984.81143
Summary: We consider F/M/type IIA theory compactified to four, three, or two dimensions on a Calabi-Yau four-fold, and study the behavior near an isolated singularity in the presence of appropriate fluxes and branes. We analyze the vacuum and soliton structure of these models, and show that near an isolated singularity, one often generates massless chiral superfields and a superpotential, and in many instances in two or three dimensions one obtains nontrivial superconformal field theories. In the case of two dimensions, we identify some of these theories with certain Kazama-Suzuki coset models, such as the $$N=2$$ minimal models.

##### MSC:
 81T40 Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics 14J32 Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects)
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