Supersymmetric Born-Infeld from the pure spinor formalism of the open superstring

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 515-535

  Berkovits, Nathan ^a   Pershin, Vladimir ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

D branes; Extended Supersymmetry; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444439980     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/023     Document Type: Article

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