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A brief guide to p‐branes
Author(s) -
Papadopoulos G.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
fortschritte der physik/progress of physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.469
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1521-3978
pISSN - 0015-8208
DOI - 10.1002/prop.2190440610
Subject(s) - supergravity , brane cosmology , physics , brane , higher dimensional supergravity , theoretical physics , mathematical physics , particle physics , supersymmetry
We describe the qualitative properties of p ‐brane solutions of supergravity theories and present two examples of p ‐brane solutions, first the dyonic membrane solutions of N = 2 D = 8 supergravity and second the intersecting M‐brane solutions of D = 11 supergravity.