An action for the super-5-brane in D = 11 supergravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages

  Cederwall, Martin ^a   Nilsson, Bengt E W ^b   Sundell, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Supergravity models

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EID: 33645921353     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/04/007     Document Type: Article

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