Constraints on 6D supergravity theories with abelian gauge symmetry

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Park, Daniel S ^a   Taylor, Washington ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalies in field and string theories; F theory; Supergravity models; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857255435     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)141     Document Type: Article

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