Comments on orientifolds without vector structure

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Bachas, Constantin ^a   Bianchi, Massimo ^b,c   Blumenhagen, Ralph ^d   Lüst, Dieter ^d,e   Weigand, Timo ^f  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Intersecting branes models

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749110996     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/08/016     Document Type: Article

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