Non-supersymmetric conformal field theories from stable anti-de Sitter spaces

Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1405-1439

  Distler, Jacques ^a   Zamora, Frederic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 0001003012     PISSN: 10950761     EISSN: 10950753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/ATMP.1998.v2.n6.a6     Document Type: Article

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