Singular Yukawa and gauge couplings in d = 4 heterotic string vacua

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 511, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 197-215

  Klein, Matthias ^a,b   Louis, Jan ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duality in string theory; Quantum moduli space; String theory; Strongly coupled gauge theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032472557     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00729-3     Document Type: Article

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