Superstrings on NS5 backgrounds, deformed AdS3 and holography

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 667-725

  Israël, Dan ^a   Kounnas, Costas ^a   Petropoulos, P Marios ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; P branes; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144469992     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/028     Document Type: Article

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