Calabi-Yau spaces and five-dimensional field theories with exceptional gauge symmetry

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 538, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 451-484

  Diaconescu, Duiliu Emanuel ^a   Entin, Rami ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calabi Yau spaces; Exceptional groups; Singularities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033545143     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00689-0     Document Type: Article

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