Intersecting orbifold planes and local anomaly cancellation in M-theory

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 554, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 437-483

  Faux, Michael ^a   Lüst, Dieter ^a   Ovrut, Burt A ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalies; M theory; Orbifolds; Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033538810     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00294-1     Document Type: Article

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