Aspects of the hypermultiplet moduli space in string duality

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages

  Aspinwall, Paul S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential and algebraic geometry; String duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645907234     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/04/019     Document Type: Article

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