The bosonic mother of fermionic D-branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 741-773

  Chattaraputi, Auttakit ^a   Englert, François ^b   Houart, Laurent ^b   Taormina, Anne ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; D branes; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242292835     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/09/037     Document Type: Article

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