Exceptional groups from open strings

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 518, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 151-172

  Gaberdiel, Matthias R ^a,b   Zwiebach, Barton ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exceptional groups; Open strings; String junctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032481963     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00841-9     Document Type: Article

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