Duality in heterotic vacua with four supercharges

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 575, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 107-133

  Haack, Michael ^a   Louis, Jan ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

11.10.Kk; 11.25. w; 11.25.Mj; Calabi Yau fourfolds; Duality in string theory; String theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001071655     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00091-2     Document Type: Article

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