Non-perturbative Enhanced Gauge Symmetries in the Gimon-Polchinski Orientifold
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We study the enhanced gauge symmetries at constant couplings in the moduli space of the Gimon-Polchinski Orientifold. We show that whenever there is a singularity of
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