SUSY vs E8 gauge theory in 11 dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1155-1169

  Evslin, Jarah ^a,b   Sati, Hisham ^c  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; M Theory; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744989284     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/05/048     Document Type: Article

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