Supersymmetric cycles in exceptional holonomy manifolds and Calabi-Yau four-folds

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 480, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 225-238

  Becker, Katrin ^a   Becker, Melanie ^b   Morrison, David R ^c   Ooguri, Hirosi ^d   Oz, Yaron ^e   Yin, Zheng ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

3 brane; Calabi Yau four folds; Cayley cycles; Exceptional holonomy manifolds; Mirror symmetry; Special Lagrangian submanifolds; Supersymmetric cycles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030602101     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00491-9     Document Type: Article

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