General two-dimensional supergravity from Poisson superalgebras

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Ertl, Martin ^a   Kummer, Wolfgang ^a   Strobl, Thomas ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

2D Gravity; Conformal and W Symmetry; Integrable Field Theories; Supergravity Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744869651     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/01/042     Document Type: Article

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