Solitons on the supermembrane

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1999, Pages

  Bergshoeff, Eric ^a   Townsend, Paul K ^b  

^a 9747 AG   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; M Theory; P branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646021015     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/05/021     Document Type: Article

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