“…In this paper we discuss the geometry of these compact spaces from the point of view of holonomy groups and string dualities; we focus mainly on the mathematical side of the new constructions. The preferred extra freedoms are needed for a total of ten, eleven or twelve dimensions: superstrings live in ten (whereas the bosonic string needs 26), but M-Theory (Witten, 1995) prefers 11 [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] , and F-Theory (Vafa, 1996(Vafa, , 2008) uses 12 [11,12,13,14,15,16,17].…”