Comments on heterotic flux compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Kimura, Tetsuji ^a   Yi, Piljin ^a  

^a Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748783071     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/07/030     Document Type: Article

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