The quantum dynamics of heterotic vortex strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Tong, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Field theories in lower dimensions; Solitons monopoles and instantons; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948843980     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/022     Document Type: Article

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