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I review the properties of superstrings on the manifolds of exceptional holonomy.

The talk is based on the old work of author with C. Vafa [1] and was presented on this workshop due to recent interest to the subject. The developments after 1994 are not reflected.

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  1. Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520-8120, USA

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Shatashvili, S.L. (2002). Exceptional Magic. In: Bachas, C., Bilal, A., Douglas, M., Nekrasov, N., David, F. (eds) Unity from Duality: Gravity, Gauge Theory and Strings. Les Houches - Ecole d’Ete de Physique Theorique, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36245-2_17

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