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  1. School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, 08540, Princeton, NJ, USA

    S. L. Shatashvili & C. Vafa

  2. Sloan Physics Laboratory, Yale University, 06520-8120, New Haven, CT, USA

    S. L. Shatashvili

  3. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

    C. Vafa

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Shatashvili, S.L., Vafa, C. Superstrings and manifolds of exceptional holonomy. Selecta Mathematica, New Series 1, 347–381 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01671569

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