Mirror symmetry is T-duality

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 479, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 243-259

  Strominger, Andrew ^a   Yau, Shing Tung ^b   Zaslow, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BPS; D branes; Duality; Mirror symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030580240     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00434-8     Document Type: Article

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