Conformal supergravity in twistor-string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 197-232

  Berkovits, Nathan ^a   Witten, Edward ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical Theories of Gravity; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044453759     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/08/009     Document Type: Article

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