Threshold corrections in orbifold models and superstring unification of gauge interactions

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3920-3941

  Chemtob, M ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

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EID: 0000580553     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.3920     Document Type: Article

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