Calabi-Yau duals of torus orientifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Schulz, Michael B ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flux compactifications; String Duality; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891643347     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/05/023     Document Type: Article

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