Heterotic/type-II triality and instantons on K3

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 15-51

  Kiritsis, Elias ^a   Obers, Niels ^b   Pioline, Boris ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

M Theory; Nonperturbative Effects; String Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444267529     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/01/029     Document Type: Article

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