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String Compactification with N = 1 Supersymmetry

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We give a very broad overview of problems and recent work in the study of string compactification with N = 1 supersymmetry, following the paradigms of heterotic string compactification on a Calabi-Yau manifold, and the more recent Dirichlet brane paradigm.

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Douglas, M.R. (2002). String Compactification with N = 1 Supersymmetry. 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_7

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