New supersymmetric string compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1291-1326

  Kachru, Shamit ^a   Schulz, Michael B ^b   Tripathy, Prasanta K ^c   Trivedi, Sandip P ^c  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

String Duality; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 2542544042     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/03/061     Document Type: Article

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