New complete noncompact Spin(7) manifolds

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 620, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 29-54

  Cvetic M ^a   Gibbons, G W ^b   Lu H ^c   Pope, C N ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0242312090     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00559-4     Document Type: Article

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