Conformal field theory for the superstring in a Ramond-Ramond plane wave background

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 927-938

  Berkovits, Nathan ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Penrose limit and pp wave background; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

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EID: 23044446948     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/04/037     Document Type: Article

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