Penrose limit and string theories on various brane backgrounds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 95-131

  Fuji, Hiroyuki ^a   Ito, Katsushi ^a   Sekino, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; P branes; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044431592     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/11/005     Document Type: Article

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