Branes, Calabi-Yau spaces, and toroidal compactification of the N = 1 six-dimensional E8 theory

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 487, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 93-127

  Ganor, Ori J ^a   Morrison, David R ^b,d   Seiberg, Nathan ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calabi Yau manifolds; D branes; Non trivial fixed points

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031550740     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00690-6     Document Type: Article

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