Branes at orbifolds versus Hanany-Witten in six dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages

  Brunner, Ilka ^a   Karch, Andreas ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomalies in Field and String Theories; Branes in String Theory; Field Theories in Higher dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645935111     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/03/003     Document Type: Article

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