The D-instanton partition function

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Dorey, Nick ^a   Hollowood, Timothy J ^a   Khoze, Valentin V ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D branes; Extended Supersymmetry; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744907319     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/03/040     Document Type: Article

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