Exploring positive monad bundles and a new heterotic standard model

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Anderson, Lara B ^a   Gray, James ^b   He, Yang Hui ^b,c,d   Lukas, Andre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MERTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differential and algebraic geometry; M Theory; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954938850     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)054     Document Type: Article

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