Penrose limits and non-local theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 387-411

  Hubeny, Veronika E ^a   Rangamani, Mukund ^b   Verlinde, Erik ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

M Theory; Penrose limit and pp wave background; Renormalization Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044443026     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/10/020     Document Type: Article

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