String and M-theory deformations of manifolds with special holonomy

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1905-1941

  Lü, Hong ^a   Pope, Christofer N ^a   Stelle, Kellog S ^b   Townsend, Paul K ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

M Theory; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844535791     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/07/075     Document Type: Article

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