The D1/D5 system and singular CFT

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages

  Seiberg, Nathan ^a   Witten, Edward ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Field Theories in Lower Dimensions; Models of Quantum Gravity; Superstring Vacua; Supersymmetry and Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646020701     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/04/017     Document Type: Article

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