Yukawa couplings and fermion mass structure in F-theory GUTs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Leontaris, G K ^a   Ross, G G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D branes; F theory; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053097888     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2011)108     Document Type: Article

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