Branes and instantons intersecting at angles

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Cvetič, Mirjam ^a   García Etxebarria, Iñaki ^a   Richter, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Intersecting branes models; Nonperturbative effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954984208     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2010)005     Document Type: Article

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