M-theory on manifolds of G2 holonomy and type-IIA orientifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2001, Pages

  Kachru, Shamit ^a   McGreevy, John ^b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

M theory; String duality; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744545057     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/06/027     Document Type: Article

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