Numerical Hermitian Yang-Mills connections and vector bundle stability in heterotic theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Anderson, Lara B ^a   Braun, Volker ^b   Karp, Robert L ^c   Ovrut, Burt A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential and algebraic geometry; Superstring vacua; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954965740     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)107     Document Type: Article

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