New orientifold weak coupling limits in F-theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Aluffi, Paolo ^a   Esole, Mboyo ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; F theory; Flux compactifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954944576     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)020     Document Type: Article

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