String islands

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Dabholkar, Atish ^a,b   Harvey, Jeffrey A ^a,b  

^a Institute of Fundamental Research Homi Bhabha Road ^*  (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended Supersymmetry; Supergravity Models; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646063198     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/02/006     Document Type: Article

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