Landscape study of target space duality of (0, 2) heterotic string models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Blumenhagen, Ralph ^a   Rahn, Thorsten ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential and Algebraic Geometry; String Duality; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053141068     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2011)098     Document Type: Article

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