The spacetime life of a non-BPS D-particle

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 584, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 251-283

  Eyras, Eduardo ^a   Panda, Sudhakar ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c Mehta Res Inst of Math and Math   (India)

Author keywords

11.25. w; 11.25.Sq; Branes; Non BPS

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034683372     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00376-X     Document Type: Article

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