Abelian gauge fluxes and local models in F-theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Chung, Yu Chieh ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

F theory; GUT

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954927303     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2010)006     Document Type: Article

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