Matching conditions for a brane of arbitrary codimension

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1913-1953

  Charmousis, Christos ^a   Zegers, Robin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Classical Theories of Gravity; Large Extra Dimensions; p branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944473403     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/08/075     Document Type: Article

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