BPS quantization of the five-brane

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 486, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 89-113

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black holes; BPS states; Duality; Entropy; Five brane; M theory; String theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031575487     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00639-6     Document Type: Article

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