4d-Flat compactifications with brane vorticities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2057-2066

  Randjbar Daemi, Seif ^a   Rubakov, Valery ^b  

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

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Extra Large Dimensions; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Sigma Models; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044513895     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/054     Document Type: Article

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