Lumps in the throat

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Dasgupta, Keshav ^a   Firouzjahi, Hassan ^a   Gwyn, Rhiannon ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

D branes; String theory and cosmic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247876075     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/04/093     Document Type: Article

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