A note on compactifications on Spin(7)-holonomy manifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages

  Becker, Katrin ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CIT USC Center for Theoretical Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

M Theory; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744753792     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/05/003     Document Type: Article

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