Duality twists, orbifolds, and fluxes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1219-1243

  Dabholkar, Atish ^a   Hull, Chris ^b  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

String Duality; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144449936     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/054     Document Type: Article

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