A non-abelian self-dual gauge theory in 5+1 dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Ho, Pei Ming ^a   Huang, Kuo Wei ^a   Matsuo, Yutaka ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Duality in gauge field theories; Gauge symmetry; M Theory; P branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053109942     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2011)021     Document Type: Article

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