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. 1998 Sep 15;95(19):11039-40.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.19.11039.

String theory

B R Greene  1 , D R Morrison, J Polchinski
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String theory

B R Greene et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Figure 1
Space of string vacua. The cusps are limits in which a weakly coupled string description is possible, except for the M-theory limit. [Reproduced with permission from Polchinski, J. (1996) Rev. Mod. Phys. 68, 1245–1258; copyright 1996 by the American Physical Society.]
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