Large N field theory of N = 2 strings and self-dual gravity

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 385-397

  Jevicki, Antal ^b   Mihailescu, Mihail ^b   Nunes, João P ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DOUBLE SCALING LIMIT; FIELD THEORY; POISSON ALGEBRA; SELF-DUAL GRAVITY; SIGMA MODELS; STRING THEORY; WESS-ZUMINO-WITTEN MODEL;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0033077914     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00213-6     Document Type: Article

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