Five-brane superpotentials and heterotic/F-theory duality

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 838, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 458-491

  Grimm, Thomas W ^a   Ha, Tae Won ^a   Klemm, Albrecht ^a   Klevers, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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EID: 77954656891     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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