Merging heterotic orbifolds and K3 compactifications with line bundles

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Honecker, Gabriele ^a   Trapletti, Michele ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomalies in field and string theories; Compactification and string models; Superstring vacua; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947660942     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/051     Document Type: Article

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