Type-IIB orientifolds without untwisted tadpoles, and non-BPS D-branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Rabadán, Paúl ^a   Uranga, Angel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

D branes; Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744867408     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/029     Document Type: Article

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