Standard-model bundles on non-simply connected calabi-yau threefolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1-26

  Donagi, Ron ^a   Ovrut, Burt A ^a   Pantev, Tony ^a   Waldram, Daniel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compactification and String Models; M Theory; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745054412     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/08/053     Document Type: Article

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