Exact wave solutions to 6D gauged chiral supergravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Tolley, Andrew J ^a   Burgess, C P ^a,b,c   De Rham, Claudia ^a,b   Hoover, D ^d  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classical theories of gravity; Large extra dimensions; Supergravity models; Supersymmetric effective theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749097520     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/075     Document Type: Article

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