The conformal sector of F-theory GUTs

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Heckman, Jonathan J ^a   Vafa, Cumrun ^b   Wecht, Brian ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; F Theory; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053288443     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)075     Document Type: Article

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