Rigid D6-branes on T6/(ℤ2 × ℤ2M × ΩR) with discrete torsion

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Forste, Stefan ^a   Honecker, Gabriele ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conformal field models in string theory; D branes; Intersecting branes models; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053109751     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)091     Document Type: Article

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