B-L cosmic strings in heterotic standard models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Brelidze, Tamaz ^a   Ovrut, Burt A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

String theory and cosmic strings; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954980690     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2010)077     Document Type: Article

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