Exact thresholds and instanton effects in D = 3 string theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 7 PART A, 2000, Pages

  Obers, Niels A ^a   Pioline, Boris ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

Nonperturbative Effects; p branes; String Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 7744228305     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/07/003     Document Type: Article

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