The Dirichlet super-three-brane in ten-dimensional type IIB supergravity

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 490, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 163-178

  Cederwall, Martin ^a   Von Gussich, Alexander ^a   Nilsson, Bengt E W ^a   Westerberg, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

D brane actions; D branes; p branes; Supergravity; Supersymmetry; symmetry

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EID: 0031567275     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00071-0     Document Type: Article

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