G-structures and domain walls in heterotic theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lukas, Andre ^a   Matti, Cyril ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; Superstrings and heterotic strings; Supersymmetric effective theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053109864     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)151     Document Type: Article

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