Worldsheet descriptions of wrapped NS five-branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 775-803

  Hori, Kentaro ^a   Kapustin, Anton ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; p branes; String Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044461066     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/11/038     Document Type: Article

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