Superstrings on pp-wave backgrounds and symmetric orbifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 813-845

  Hikida, Yasuaki ^a   Sugawara, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Penrose limit and pp wave background; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038356055     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/06/037     Document Type: Article

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