29 citations · 42 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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hep-th2003★ 13 cited
Freund-Rubin Revisited
B. S. Acharya, F. Denef, C. Hofman +1
We utilise the duality between M theory and Type IIA string theory to show the existence of Freund-Rubin compactifications of M theory on 7-manifolds with singularities supporting…
hep-th2002★ 29 cited
Topological Open Membranes
Christiaan Hofman, Jae-Suk Park
We study topological open membranes of BF type in a manifest BV formalism. Our main interest is the effect of the bulk deformations on the algebra of boundary operators. This forms…