Asymmetric orientifolds, brane supersymmetry breaking and non-BPS branes

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 589, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 545-576

  Angelantonj, Carlo ^a,b   Blumenhagen, Ralph ^c   Gaberdiel, Matthias R ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^b CENTRE DE PHYSIQUE THÉORIQUE   (France)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0347743805     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00518-6     Document Type: Article

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