Dualities versus singularities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Banks, Tom ^a,b   Fischler, Willy ^a   Motl, Luboš ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

M Theory; String duality; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646064737     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/01/019     Document Type: Article

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