String theory in curved space-time

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3800-3810

  Viswanathan, K S ^a   Parthasarathy, R ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

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EID: 0001031290     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.3800     Document Type: Article

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