A systematic search for anomaly-free supergravities in six dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1303-1338

  Avramis, Spyros D ^a   Kehagias, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anomalies in Field and String Theories; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544466993     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/052     Document Type: Article

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