Monopoles, vortices, domain walls and D-branes: The rules of interaction

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2005, Pages 403-442

  Sakai, Norisuke ^a   Tong, David ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D branes; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344450932     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/03/019     Document Type: Article

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