Anomalies & tadpoles

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1-24

  Bianchi, Massimo ^a   Morales, Jose F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anomalies in Field and String Theories; Compactification and String Models; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 6444241902     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/03/030     Document Type: Article

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