Conformal primaries of OSp(8/4, ℝ) and BPS states in AdS4

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 5 PART B, 2000, Pages 1-21

  Ferrara, Sergio ^a   Sokatchev, Emery ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b Lab d'Annecy le Vieux Phys P   (France)

Author keywords

Conformal and W Symmetry; M Theory; Superspaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244221710     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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