Heterotic anomaly cancellation in five dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 18-49

  Lukas, André ^a   Stelle, Kellog S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomalies in Field and String Theories; M Theory; p branes; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444251165     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/01/010     Document Type: Article

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