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Hirotaka Hayashi, Rui-Dong Zhu
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Shinichiro Yahagi
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Lj Davidovic, I. Ivanisevic, B. Sazdovic
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Shengmao Zhu
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
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Linus Wulff
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(2022)
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Seung-Joo Lee, Wolfgang Lerche, Guglielmo Lockhart, Timo Weigand
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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J. Hristov
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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
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Mohammad R. Hosseini, Mohammad R. Garousi
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
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Eric Lescano, Jesus A. Rodriguez
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(2021)
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Mohammad R. R. Garousi
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
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Seung-Joo Lee, Wolfgang Lerche, Timo Weigand
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
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Mohammad R. Garousi
Summary: It has been shown that the minimum number of gauge invariant couplings for B-field, metric and dilaton at order alpha ' (3) is 872, appearing in 55 different structures. Parameters in type II superstring theories can be fixed by reducing the couplings on a circle to be invariant under T-duality transformations. There are 445 non-zero couplings found in 15 different structures, consistent with partial couplings found in literature.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)