Enhanced gauge symmetry in type II and F-theory compactifications: Dynkin diagrams from polyhedra

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 505, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 679-700

  Perevalov, Eugene ^a   Skarke, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Calabi Yau; F theory; Singularities; Toric geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031576430     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00477-X     Document Type: Article

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