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- noun physics, in supersymmetry A measure of the size of a
brane
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world + volume
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Matsuo can even derive the self-dual 3-form field strength in the M5-brane worldvolume as various objects in the 2+1-dimensional theory or their Hodge duals.
The Reference Frame 2010
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