Comments on A, B, C chains of heterotic and type II vacua

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 502, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 594-612

  Candelas, Philip ^a   Perevalov, Eugene ^a   Rajesh, Govindan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Calabi yau; F theory; Singularities; Toric geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031556459     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00374-X     Document Type: Article

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