Collapsing D-branes in Calabi-Yau moduli space I

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 604, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 181-255

  Greene, B R ^a   Lazaroiu, C I ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

11.15; 11.25; 11.25.M; Compactification; D branes; Mirror symmetry; Moduli space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042872561     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00154-7     Document Type: Article

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