Gauged supergravity and singular Calabi-Yau manifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Mohaupt, Thomas ^a   Zagermann, Marco ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gauge symmetry; M theory; Supergravity models; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744764583     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/12/026     Document Type: Article

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