Non-abelian bundles on heterotic non-compact K3 orbifold blowups

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Nibbelink, Stefan Groot ^a,b   Correia, Filipe Paccetti ^c   Trapletti, Michele ^d,e  

^a INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^e CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Strings and branes phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149360442     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/044     Document Type: Article

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