Ghost D-branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2006, Pages 4517-4555

  Okuda, Takuya ^a   Takayanagi, Tadashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes; String Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645694874     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/062     Document Type: Article

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