Five-brane superpotentials, blow-up geometries and SU(3) structure manifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Grimm, Thomas W ^a,b   Klemm, Albrecht ^a   Klevers, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

D branes; Heterotic strings; String duality; Superstring vacua; Superstrings

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053139590     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2011)113     Document Type: Article

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