Fractional branes and boundary states in orbifold theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 10 PART A, 2000, Pages

  Diaconescu, Duiliu Emanuel ^a   Gomis, Jaume ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 6444235921     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/10/001     Document Type: Article

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