Towards covariant quantization of the supermembrane

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1059-1102

  Berkovits, Nathan ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

BRST Quantization; M Theory; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044508767     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/09/051     Document Type: Article

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