Five-brane effective action in M-theory

Journal of Geometry and Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 103-133

  Witten, Edward ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Five brane; M theory; Partition function; Perturbative anomaly cancellation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031142054     PISSN: 03930440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0393-0440(97)80160-X     Document Type: Article

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