Curvature terms in D-brane actions and their M-theory origin

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1999, Pages

  Bachas, Constantin P ^a   Bain, Pascal ^b   Green, Michael B ^c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UMR8549   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D branes; M Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646025252     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/05/011     Document Type: Article

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