Higher spin N = 8 supergravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1998, Pages

  Sezgin, Ergin ^a   Sundell, Per ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

M Theory; Space Time Symmetries; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041557116     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/11/016     Document Type: Article

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