The M5-brane Hamiltonian

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 533, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 303-316

  Bergshoeff, E ^a   Sorokin, D ^b,d   Townsend, P K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d KHARKOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Hamiltonian formulation; Kappa symmetry; M branes; Superspace

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032538737     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00504-5     Document Type: Article

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