The heterotic string is a soliton.

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00310-OzbMath1076.81555MaRDI QIDQ1571700

Jeffrey A. Harvey, Andrew Strominger

Publication date: 11 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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