Gauge threshold corrections for local orientifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Conlon, Joseph P ^a   Palti, Eran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GUT; Intersecting branes models; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350029089     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/019     Document Type: Article

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