Stability walls in heterotic theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Anderson, Lara B ^a,b   Gray, James ^c   Lukas, Andre ^c   Ovrut, Burt ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differential and algebraic geometry; M theory; Superstring vacua; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350089591     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/026     Document Type: Article

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