String-induced Yang-Mills coupling to self-dual gravity

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 539, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 309-328

  Devchand, Chandrashekar ^a   Lechtenfeld, Olaf ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extended Poincar symmetry; Higher spin fields; N = 2 strings; Self duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033601633     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00732-9     Document Type: Article

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