Superconnections, anomalies and non-BPS brane charges

Journal of Geometry and Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 241-292

  Szabo, Richard J ^a,b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Extrinsic curvature; Null hypersurfaces; Space splitting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036339079     PISSN: 03930440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0393-0440(02)00024-4     Document Type: Article

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