Superspace geometry for supermembrane backgrounds

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 532, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 99-123

  De Wit, Bernard ^a,b   Peeters, Kasper ^c   Plefka, Jan ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

M theory; Supergravity; Supermembranes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032476504     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00445-3     Document Type: Article

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