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at the age of 15. During these years, Husain wrote extensively. In 1988, she won an international essay competition held by the
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Brinne, Bjorn & Fayyazuddin, Ansar & Husain, Tasneem & Smith, Douglas. (2001). Script N = 1 M5-brane geometries. Journal of High Energy
Physics. 3. 052. 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/03/052.
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Fayyazuddin, Ansar & Husain, Tasneem. (2007). G(2) holonomy metrics and wrapped D6-branes. Physical Review D - PHYS REV D. 75. 065017-065017. 10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.065017.
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Fayyazuddin, Ansar & Husain, Tasneem & Pappa, Ioanna. (2005). Geometry of wrapped M5-branes in Calabi-Yau 2-folds. Physical Review D. 73. 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.126004.
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Geometry of M-Branes Wrapping Special Lagrangian Cycles. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 23. 10.1088/0264-9381/23/24/004.
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Husain, Tasneem & Zabzine, Maxim. (2000). Relevant boundary perturbations of CFT: A case study. Physical Review D. 63. 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.046003.
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