Focusing of timelike world sheets in a theory of strings

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 7921-7925

  Kar, Sayan ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

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EID: 0040193156     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.7921     Document Type: Article

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