Branes, orientifolds and the creation of elementary strings

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 509, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 194-215

  Bergman, Oren ^a,b   Gaberdiel, Matthias R ^b   Lifschytz, Gilad ^c  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Heterotic matrix model; Massive IIA supergravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032484399     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00632-9     Document Type: Article

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