AdS3 gravity and conformal field theories

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 546, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 65-95

  Behrndt, Klaus ^a   Brunner, Ilka ^a   Gaida, Ingo ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black Holes; Chern Simons theory; Conformal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033606029     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00040-1     Document Type: Article

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