M-theory and E10: Billiards, branes, and imaginary roots

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1665-1719

  Brown, Jeffrey ^a   Ganor, Ori J ^a,b   Helfgott, Craig ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

M Theory; Models of Quantum Gravity; String Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144480107     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/08/063     Document Type: Article

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