Nongeometry, duality twists, and the worldsheet

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 1, 2006, Pages 4163-4190

  Flournoy, Alex ^a   Williams, Brook ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global Symmetries; Space Time Symmetries; String Duality; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645512598     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/01/166     Document Type: Article

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