Effective actions near singularities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1205-1239

  Louis, Jan ^a   Mohaupt, Thomas ^b   Zagermann, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gauge Symmetry; Supergravity Models; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Supersymmetric Effective Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142147028     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/02/053     Document Type: Article

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