Axions in string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Svrček, Peter ^a   Witten, Edward ^b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

QCD; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745756078     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/06/051     Document Type: Article

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