Multiple realisations of script N = 1 vacua in six dimensions

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 479, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 285-304

  Gimon, Eric G ^a   Johnson, Clifford V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compactification; D branes; F theory; M theory; Orientifold; Superstrings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030580250     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00439-7     Document Type: Article

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