Towards a manifestly SL(2, ℤ)-covariant action for the type-IIB (p,q) super-five-branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1999, Pages

  Westerberg, Anders ^a   Wyllard, Niclas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D branes; P branes; String Duality; Supersymmetry and Duality

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EID: 33646046828     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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