Self-dual super-Yang-Mills as a string theory in (x, θ) space

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 779-791

  Berkovits, Nathan ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Extended Supersymmetry; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044464972     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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