Orbifolds as melvin geometry

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1-18

  Takayanagi, Tadashi ^a   Uesugi, Tadaoki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744768352     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/12/004     Document Type: Article

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