Compactifications of heterotic theory on non-Kähler complex manifolds, I

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 83-142

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Supergravity Models; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044449211     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/007     Document Type: Article

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