Brane configurations for branes at conifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Uranga, Angel M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; D branes; Duality in Gauge Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646062590     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/01/022     Document Type: Article

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