On the Dirac-Born-Infeld action for D-branes

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

Volumn 390, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 148-152

  Cederwall, M ^a   Von Gussich, A ^a   Mikovic A ^a,b   Nilsson, B E W ^a   Westerberg, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

D branes; Dirac Born Infeld action; P branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042637991     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01367-6     Document Type: Article

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