Moduli spaces of fivebranes on elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1999, Pages

  Donagi, Ron ^a   Ovrut, Burt A ^a   Waldram, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compactification and string models; Differential and algebraic geometry; M theory; P branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645933936     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/11/030     Document Type: Article

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