Non-supersymmetric orbifolds

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00336-XzbMath0995.83059arXivhep-th/0202057OpenAlexW2151523673MaRDI QIDQ1600331

Alexis Hernández, Anamaría Font

Publication date: 12 June 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202057

zbMATH Keywords

compactificationspectrumtachyon-free heterotic models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Relationships between surfaces, higher-dimensional varieties, and physics (14J81)

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