D-branes, discrete torsion and the McKay correspondence

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Aspinwall, Paul S ^a   Plesser, M Ronen ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744859255     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/02/009     Document Type: Article

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