Gravity on codimension 2 brane worlds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-159

  Navarro, Ignacio ^a   Santiago, José ^a,b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical Theories of Gravity; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; p branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044481489     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/02/007     Document Type: Article

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