Non-abelian brane worlds: The heterotic string story

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2081-2104

  Blumenhagen, Ralph ^a   Honecker, Gabriele ^a   Weigand, Timo ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomalies in Field and String Theories; String Duality; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544446807     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/086     Document Type: Article

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