Three looks at instantons in F-theory- New insights from anomaly inow, string junctions and heterotic duality

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Cvetič, Mirjam ^a   García Etxebarria, Iñaki ^a   Halverson, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

F theory; Nonperturbative effects; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255186513     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)101     Document Type: Article

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