M5-branes and Wilson surfaces

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Bin ^a   Zhang, Liang ^a   He, Wei ^b   Wu, Jun Bao ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ADS CFT correspondence; M theory; P branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953239342     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/067     Document Type: Article

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