String vacua with flux from freely-acting obifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 259-272

  Serone, Marco ^a   Trapletti, Michele ^a,b  

^a SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

String Duality; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144460359     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/01/012     Document Type: Article

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