Consistency conditions for the five-brane in M-theory on ℝ5/ℤ2 orbifold

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 539, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 35-78

  Hori, Kentaro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirac quantization condition; M theory; Orientifold

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033601641     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00728-7     Document Type: Article

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