Non-abelian Born-Infeld action and solitons for critical non-BPS branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 8 PART A, 2000, Pages 1-13

  Lambert, Neil D ^a   Sachs, Ivo ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044271182     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/024     Document Type: Article

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