Twistor approach to string compactifications: A review

Physics Reports

Volumn 522, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-57

  Alexandrov, Sergei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

Calabi Yau compactification; D brane instanton; NS5 brane; Quaternionic geometry; String theory; Twistors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870914596     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2012.09.005     Document Type: Review

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