Stringy KLT relations, global symmetries, and E 7(7)-violation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Elvang, Henriette ^a,b   Kiermaier, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended supersymmetry; Global symmetries; Supergravity models; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856403466     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2010)108     Document Type: Article

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