BPS bounds for worldvolume branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Gauntlett, Jerome P ^a   Gomis, Joaquim ^b   Townsend, Paul K ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branes in String Theory; M and F theories and Other Generalizations; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645926385     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/01/003     Document Type: Article

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