A heterotic flux background and calibrated five-branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Kim, Seok ^a   Yi, Piljin ^a  

^a Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; String Duality; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846212764     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/11/040     Document Type: Review

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