Nonlinear instantons from supersymmetric p-branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-31

  Mariño, Marcos ^a,c   Minasian, Ruben ^a,d   Moore, Gregory ^a,c   Strominger, Andrew ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

D branes; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions; Nonperturbative Effects; p branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444259277     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/01/005     Document Type: Article

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