Gerbes and massive type II configurations

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1999, Pages

  Kalkkinen, Jussi ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential and Algebraic Geometry; P branes; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645929090     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/07/002     Document Type: Article

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