Evidence for heterotic/heterotic duality

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 465, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 413-438

  Duff, M J ^a   Minasian, R ^b   Witten, Edward ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalies; Duality; Instantons; M theory; String theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030597742     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00059-4     Document Type: Article

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