Minimal superstrings and loop gas models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 858-891

  Gaiotto, Davide ^a   Rastelli, Leonardo ^b   Takayanagi, Tadashi ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Lattice Models of Gravity; String Field Theory; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444442884     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/029     Document Type: Article

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