Matrix string theory

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 500, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 43-61

  Dijkgraaf, Robbert ^a   Verlinde, Erik ^b,c   Verlinde, Herman ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Matrix theory; String theory; Supersymmetric gauge theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031234521     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00326-X     Document Type: Article

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