Non-Abelian structures in compactifications of M-theory on seven-manifolds with SU(3) structure

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Aharony, Ofer ^a   Berkooz, Micha ^a   Louis, Jan ^b   Micu, Andrei ^c,d  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

Author keywords

M theory; String duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149316409     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/108     Document Type: Article

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