Lectures on constructing string vacua

Les Houches Summer School Proceedings

Volumn 87, Issue , 2008, Pages 483-610

  Denef, Frederik ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 53349143022     PISSN: 09248099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-8099(08)80029-7     Document Type: Chapter

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