Fermions, T-duality and effective actions for D-branes in bosonic backgrounds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1147-1168

  Marolf, Donald ^a   Martucci, Luca ^b   Silva, Pedro J ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

D branes; M Theory; Superspaces; Supersymmetry and Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044472484     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/051     Document Type: Article

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