Hyper-Kähler Calabi metrics, L2 harmonic forms, resolved M2-branes, and AdS4/CFT3 correspondence

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 617, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 151-197

  Cvetic M ^a,e   Gibbons, G W ^b,e   Lu H ^c   Pope, C N ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUT HENRI POINCARÉ   (France)

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EID: 0035803799     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00449-7     Document Type: Article

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