Topological gravity versus supergravity on manifolds with special holonomy

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 227-241

  Baulieu, Laurent ^a   Tanzini, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a LPTHE   (France)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

BRST Quantization; Supergravity Models; Topological Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242681209     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/03/015     Document Type: Article

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