Gauge symmetry in background charge conformal field theory

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 489, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 245-263

  Dolan, L ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Background charge; Discrete states; DKV no go theorem; Fivebrane; Liouville

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031592517     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00003-5     Document Type: Article

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