Localized intersections of M5-branes and four-dimensional superconformal field theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages

  Fayyazuddin, Ansar ^a   Smith, Douglas J ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

D branes; P branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242280590     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/04/030     Document Type: Article

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