SU(4) instantons on Calabi-Yau threefolds with ℤ2 × ℤ2 fundamental group

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 521-578

  Donagi, Ron ^a   Pantev, Tony ^a   Ovrut, Burt A ^a   Reinbacher, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential and Algebraic Geometry; M Theory; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144454507     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/01/022     Document Type: Article

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