Landau-Ginzburg vacua of string, M- and F-theory at c = 12

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 550, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 123-150

  Lynker, Monika ^a   Schimmrigk, Rolf ^a,b   Wißkirchen, Andreas ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calabi Yau manifolds; F theory; Landau Ginzburg theory; Mirror symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033553722     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00204-7     Document Type: Article

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