A note on toroidal compactifications of the type I superstring and other superstring vacuum configurations with 16 supercharges

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 528, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 73-94

  Bianchi, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Duality; Open strings; Supersymmetry; Toroidal compactifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032517013     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00403-9     Document Type: Article

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