Constraints on the BPS spectrum of N = 2, D = 4 theories with ADE flavor symmetry

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 534, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 261-274

  DeWolfe, Oliver ^a   Hauer, Tamás ^a   Iqbal, Amer ^a   Zwiebach, Barton ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

BPS states; IIB strings; Seiberg Witten theory; String junctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032561625     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00652-X     Document Type: Article

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