The holonomy of the supercovariant connection and Killing spinors

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 383-410

  Papadopoulos, George ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

M Theory; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144437353     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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