Statistics on the heterotic landscape: Gauge groups and cosmological constants of four-dimensional heterotic strings

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Dienes, Keith R ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

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EID: 33646886117     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.106010     Document Type: Article

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