Freedom and constraints in the K3 landscape

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Kumar, Vijay ^a   Taylor, Washington ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intersecting branes models; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649577193     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/066     Document Type: Article

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