Parallelisable heterotic backgrounds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 223-244

  Figueroa O'Farrill, José ^a   Kawano, Teruhiko ^b   Yamaguchi, Satoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differential and Algebraic Geometry; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044481832     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/012     Document Type: Article

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