Exploring a new peak in the heterotic landscape

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Bak, Anthony ^a   Bouchard, Vincent ^b   Donagi, Ron ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compactification and string models; Differential and algebraic geometry; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954981764     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)108     Document Type: Article

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