Monads and D-instantons

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 493, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 198-230

  Park, Jae Suk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

D branes; D instantons; Monads (ADHM) construction; Yang Mills instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031586982     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00144-2     Document Type: Article

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