Global embeddings for branes at toric singularities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Balasubramanian, Vijay ^a   Berglund, Per ^b   Braun, Volker ^c   García Etxebarria, Iñaki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compactification and string models; D branes; F Theory; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868298821     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2012)132     Document Type: Article

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