Duality relations among topological effects in string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 5 PART B, 2000, Pages 22-30

  Witten, Edward ^a,b,c  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; M Theory; String Duality; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244247325     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/05/031     Document Type: Article

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