QED from six-dimensional vortex and gauge anomalies

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 333-349

  Randjbar Daemi, Seif ^a   Shaposhnikov, Mikhail ^b  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044496365     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/016     Document Type: Article

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