Compactifications of the heterotic string with unitary bundles

Fortschritte der Physik

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 963-1077

  Weigand, Timo ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heterotic strings; Model building; Type I strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751165261     PISSN: 00158208     EISSN: 15213978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prop.200610327     Document Type: Article

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