Charged tachyons and gauge symmetry breaking

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 687-703

  Suyama, Takao ^a  

^a HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

Author keywords

M Theory; String Duality; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044466533     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/02/033     Document Type: Article

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