Strings from matrices

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 497, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 41-55

  Banks, Tom ^a   Seiberg, Nathan ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IIA and IIB strings; M theory; Matrix model; String theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031582560     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00278-2     Document Type: Article

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