α′ -corrections to heterotic superstring effective action revisited

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Chemissany, Wissam A ^a   De Roo, Mees ^a   Panda, Sudhakar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Superstrings and heterotic strings; Supersymmetric effective theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953260329     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/037     Document Type: Article

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