Geometrical aspects of fivebranes in heterotic/F-Theory duality in four dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1999, Pages

  Diaconescu, Duiliu Emanuel ^a   Rajesh, Govindan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

F Theory; String Duality; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 4244119263     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/06/002     Document Type: Article

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