D-branes at singularities, compactification, and hypercharge

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Buican, Matthew ^a   Malyshev, Dmitry ^a   Morrison, David R ^b,c   Verlinde, Herman ^a   Wijnholt, Martijn ^a,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

D branes; Intersecting branes models; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947650663     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/107     Document Type: Article

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