Compactifications of heterotic strings on non-Kähler complex manifolds II

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 678, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 19-100

  Becker, Katrin ^a   Becker, Melanie ^b   Dasgupta, Keshav ^c   Green, Paul S ^b   Sharpe, Eric ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0345761536     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.11.029     Document Type: Article

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