On seven-brane dependent instanton prefactors in F-theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Cvetič, Mirjam ^a,b   Donagi, Ron ^a   Halverson, James ^a,c   Marsano, Joseph ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e Sunrise Futures LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

F Theory; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869069370     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2012)004     Document Type: Article

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