Gravitational anomaly cancellation for M-theory fivebranes

Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 601-618

  Freed, Dan ^a,b   Harvey, Jeffrey A ^c   Minasian, Ruben ^d   Moore, Gregory ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Yale University   (United States)

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EID: 33646034422     PISSN: 10950761     EISSN: 10950753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/ATMP.1998.v2.n3.a8     Document Type: Article

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