To tilt or not to tilt: Discrete gauge symmetries in global intersecting D-brane models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Honecker, Gabriele ^a   Staessens, Wieland ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrete and Finite Symmetries; Intersecting branes models; Superstring Vacua; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892655599     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)146     Document Type: Article

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