Strings as solitons & black holes as strings

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 474, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-121

  Dabholkar, Atish ^a   Gauntlett, Jerome P ^a   Harvey, Jeffrey A ^b   Waldram, Daniel ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0030593570     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00266-0     Document Type: Article

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