Interacting chiral gauge fields in six dimensions and Born-Infeld theory

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 489, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 47-64

  Perry, Malcolm ^a   Schwarz, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Born Infeld theory; M theory; Self dual tensors; Six dimensional field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031592522     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00040-0     Document Type: Article

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