A modular invariant partition function for the fivebrane

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 530, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 683-700

  Dolan, Louise ^a   Nappi, Chiara R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fivebrane effective action; Partition function; Path integral; Quantized self dual two form

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032547644     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00537-9     Document Type: Article

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