Canonical differential geometry of string backgrounds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 2, 2006, Pages 059-

  Schuller, Frederic P ^a   Wohlfarth, Mattias N R ^b  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Classical Theories of Gravity; D branes; Differential and Algebraic Geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644757650     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/02/059     Document Type: Article

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