Stringy Higgs mechanism and the fate of open strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

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

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

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bosonic strings; D branes; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744835218     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/019     Document Type: Article

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