A family of SCFTs hosting all "very attractive" relatives of the (2)4 Gepner model

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2006, Pages 6407-6457

  Wendland, Katrin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Differential and Algebraic Geometry; Supersymmetry and Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645680549     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/102     Document Type: Review

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