Large-volume string compactifications, revisited

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 493, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 73-100

  Cáceres, Elena ^a,b   Kaplunovsky, Vadim S ^a   Mandelberg, I Michael ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Duality; String compactification; Strongly coupled strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031586980     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00129-6     Document Type: Article

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