An abundance of heterotic vacua

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Gabella, Maxime ^a   He, Yang Hui ^a,b   Lukas, Andre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MERTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 62749168387     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/027     Document Type: Article

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