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Domain walls and spacetime-filling branes

Authors :
Eric Bergshoeff
Source :
Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries ISBN: 9783540660040
Publication Year :
2008
Publisher :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.

Abstract

We discuss branes with one transversal direction (domain walls) and no transversal direction (spacetime-filling branes). In particular, we briefly discuss a relationship between spacetime-filling branes and superstring theories with sixteen supercharges.

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics
Physics::General Physics
Spacetime
Superstring theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics::Theory
Domain wall (string theory)
Theoretical physics
Killing vector field
Mathematics::K-Theory and Homology
Quantum electrodynamics
Transversal (combinatorics)
Brane cosmology
Central charge
Mathematics::Symplectic Geometry
Supersymmetry algebra

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ISBN :
978-3-540-66004-0
ISBNs :
9783540660040
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries ISBN: 9783540660040
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........f7b304963e05b7e4547035494da7c7c9
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/bfb0104596
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