%0 Journal Article %T Vector Bundles And F Theory %A Robert Friedman %A John Morgan %A Edward Witten %J Mathematics %D 1997 %I arXiv %R 10.1007/s002200050154 %X To understand in detail duality between heterotic string and F theory compactifications, it is important to understand the construction of holomorphic G bundles over elliptic Calabi-Yau manifolds, for various groups G. In this paper, we develop techniques to describe the bundles, and make several detailed comparisons between the heterotic string and F theory. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9701162v2