Extremal branes as elementary particles

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 495, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 206-218

  Balasubramanian, Vijay ^a   Larsen, Finn ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black holes; D branes; Scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031584371     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00181-8     Document Type: Article

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