Moduli spaces and brane solitons for M -theory compactifications on holonomy G2 manifolds

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 615, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 237-265

  Gutowski, J ^a   Papadopoulos, G ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

11.25.Mj; 11.27.+d; Compactification; M theory; Supergravity solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000526554     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00419-9     Document Type: Article

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