Moduli in N = 1 heterotic/F-theory duality

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 518, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 603-631

  Curio, Gottfried ^a   Donagi, Ron ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Del pezzo surface; F theory; Heterotic string; Spectral cover; String duality; Vector bundle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032507527     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00185-0     Document Type: Article

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