On flux quantization in F-theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Collinucci, Andrés ^a   Savelli, Raffaele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

F theory; M theory; Superstring vacua; Tachyon condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857888486     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2012)015     Document Type: Article

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