A new deconstruction of little string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 301-343

  Dorey, Nick ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 N Expansion; AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444449424     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/07/016     Document Type: Article

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