Field theory questions for string theory answers

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 493, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 177-197

  Aharony, Ofer ^a   Sonnenschein, Jacob ^b   Theisen, Stefan ^c,d   Yankielowicz, Shimon ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

D branes; F theory; String theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031586993     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00104-1     Document Type: Article

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