Brane intersections, anti-de Sitter space-times and dual superconformal theories

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 533, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 127-162

  Boonstra, Harm Jan ^a   Peeters, Bas ^a   Skenderis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anti de Sitter geometry; Intersecting branes; Supergravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032538750     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00512-4     Document Type: Article

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