BPS states and minimal surfaces.

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00524-0zbMath1078.81566arXivhep-th/9708068OpenAlexW2019247438MaRDI QIDQ1570681

Andrei Mikhailov

Publication date: 11 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9708068

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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