Toroidal compactification without vector structure

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Witten, Edward ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

M and F theories and Other Generalizations; String and Superstring Scattering; String Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645931011     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/02/006     Document Type: Article

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