Continuous gauge and supersymmetry breaking for open strings on D-branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 16-21

  Blumenhagen, Ralph ^a   Kounnas, Costas ^b,c   Lüst, Dieter ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; D branes; M Theory; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444226492     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/01/036     Document Type: Article

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