A unified approach to the minimal unitary realizations of noncompact groups and supergroups

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Günaydin, Murat ^a   Pavlyk, Oleksandr ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOLFRAM RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Global Symmetries; Supergravity Models; Supersymmetry and Duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749408459     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/09/050     Document Type: Article

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