Two-dimensional black hole and singularities of CY manifolds

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 463, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-72

  Ooguri, Hirosi ^a,b   Vafa, Cumrun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic strings, domain walls, texture; Properties of perturbation theory. Conformal field theory, algebraic structures. Compactification and four dimensional models. Noncritical string theory. Extended classical solutions; Theory of fundamental strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030591991     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00008-9     Document Type: Article

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