Strings in flat space and pp waves from N = 4 super Yang Mills

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 293-322

  Berenstein, David ^a   Maldacena, Juan ^a   Nastase, Horatiu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Penrose limit and pp wave background

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EID: 0042559192     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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