Branes and the dynamics of QCD

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 507, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 658-690

  Witten, Edward ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Branes; Dynamics of M theory; String theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031574552     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00648-2     Document Type: Article

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