Anomaly analysis of brane-antibrane systems

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Schwarz, John H ^a   Witten, Edward ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chern Simons Theories; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; String Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744918108     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/03/032     Document Type: Article

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