Geometry of all supersymmetric type i backgrounds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Gran, Ulf ^a   Papadopoulos, George ^b   Sloane, Peter ^b   Roest, Diederik ^c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; Supergravity models; Superstring vacua; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953279461     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/074     Document Type: Article

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