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String theory and the Donaldson polynomial

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It is shown that the scattering of spacetime axions with fivebrane solitons of heterotic string theory at zero momentum is proportional to the Donaldson polynomial.

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  1. Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 Ellis Avenue, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA

    Jeffrey A. Harvey

  2. Department of Phisics, University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Andrew Strominger

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Harvey, J.A., Strominger, A. String theory and the Donaldson polynomial. Commun.Math. Phys. 151, 221–232 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02096766

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