D-branes and strings as non-commutative solitons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 7 PART B, 2000, Pages 1-28

  Harvey, Jeffrey A ^a   Kraus, Per ^a   Larsen, Finn ^a   Martinec, Emil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Non Commutative Geometry; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 6944237582     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/07/042     Document Type: Article

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