Compact supersymmetric solutions of the heterotic equations of motion in dimension 5

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 820, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 483-502

  Fernández, Marisa ^a   Ivanov, Stefan ^b   Ugarte, Luis ^c   Villacampa, Raquel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

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EID: 67649424629     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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