D-branes and K-theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 1998, Issue 12, 1998, Pages

  Witten, Edward ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; String duality; Superstring vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028160130     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/12/019     Document Type: Article

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