M(ore) on chiral gauge theories from D-branes

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 520, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 51-74

  Lykken, Joseph ^a   Poppitz, Erich ^b   Trivedi, Sandip P ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Gauge theory; Nonperturbative; Superstrings; Supersymmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032093292     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00186-2     Document Type: Article

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