Toric lego: A method for modular model building

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Balasubramanian, Vijay ^a   Berglund, Per ^b,c   García Etxebarria, Iñaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

D branes; Intersecting branes models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954986115     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2010)076     Document Type: Article

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