Fluxes in heterotic and type II string compactifications

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 620, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 237-258

  Curio, Gottfried ^a   Klemm, Albrecht ^a   Körs, Boris ^a   Lüst, Dieter ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0001300748     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00533-8     Document Type: Article

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