Super D-branes revisited

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 531, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 226-238

  Bergshoeff, E ^a   Townsend, P K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Born Infeld; D branes; Kappa symmetry; Supergravity; Superspace

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001162553     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00432-5     Document Type: Article

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