Chern-Simons from Dirichlet 2-brane instantons

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 385, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 103-108

  O'Loughlin, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0042595420     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00851-9     Document Type: Article

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