On the critical behavior of D1-brane theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1-20

  Silverstein, Eva ^a,b   Song, Yun S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 6444232499     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/03/029     Document Type: Article

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