Del Pezzo surfaces and affine 7-brane backgrounds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-18

  Hauer, Tamás ^a   Iqbal, Amer ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; String Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444227646     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/01/043     Document Type: Article

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