Super D-branes from BRST symmetry

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 201-228

  Anguelova, Lilia ^a   Grassi, Pietro Antonio ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BRST Symmetry; D branes; p branes; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044513918     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/11/010     Document Type: Article

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