Toric K3-fibred Calabi-Yau manifolds with del Pezzo divisors for string compactifications

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Cicoli, Michele ^a   Kreuzer, Maximilian ^c   Mayrhofer, Christoph ^b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Differential and Algebraic Geometry; Flux compactifications; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857870009     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)002     Document Type: Article

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