T-duality can fail

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1999, Pages

  Aspinwall, Paul S ^a   Plesser, Moshe Ronen ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterotic Strings; String Duality Supersymmetry and Duality; Superstrings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645924090     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/08/001     Document Type: Article

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