On non-abelian structures in field theory of open strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1-15

  Gerasimov, Anton A ^a   Shatashvili, �Samson L ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744526010     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/06/066     Document Type: Article

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