D-instanton and polyinstanton effects from type I' D0-brane loops

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Petersson, Christoffer ^a   Soler, Pablo ^b   Uranga, Angel M ^b,c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

D branes; Nonperturbative effects; String duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954966891     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)089     Document Type: Article

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