Twisting K3 × T2 orbifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Cvetic, Mirjam ^a   Liu, Tao ^a   Schulz, Michael B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; Intersecting branes models; Superstring vacua; Supersymmetric effective theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948869244     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/092     Document Type: Article

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