Covariant computation of the low-energy effective action of the heterotic superstring

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 481, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 129-187

  De Boer, Jan ^a,b   Skenderis, Kostas ^a,c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Covariant quantization; Heterotic superstring; Supergravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001007021     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(96)90127-3     Document Type: Article

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