On hypercharge flux and exotics in F-theory GUTs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Dudas, Emilian ^a,b   Palti, Eran ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

F theory; GUT

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649692046     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2010)013     Document Type: Article

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