Heterotic strings in two dimensions and new stringy phase transitions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 8, 2005, Pages 957-984

  Davis, Joshua L ^a   Larsen, Finn ^a   Seiberg, Nathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

2D Gravity; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944528619     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/08/035     Document Type: Article

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