D-brane charges in five-brane backgrounds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1-39

  Maldacena, Juan ^a,b   Seiberg, Nathan ^b   Moore, Gregory ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Discrete and Finite Symmetries; M Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744764611     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/10/005     Document Type: Article

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