Supermembrane on the pp-wave background

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 644, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 113-127

  Sugiyama, Katsuyuki ^a   Yoshida, Kentaroh ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

M theory; Matrix theory; pp waves; Supermembranes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037064447     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00794-0     Document Type: Article

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