Enhanced gauge symmetries and Calabi-Yau threefolds

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 371, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 231-237

  Aspinwall, Paul S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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EID: 0041321930     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00003-2     Document Type: Article

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