Mirror symmetry and a G2 flop

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1435-1450

  Aganagic, Mina ^a   Vafa, Cumrun ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

M Theory; String Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745001470     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/05/061     Document Type: Article

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