The volume of some non-spherical horizons and the AdS/CFT correspondence

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 629-652

  Bergman, Aaron ^a   Herzog, Christopher P ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; D branes; Differential and Algebraic Geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044454267     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/01/030     Document Type: Article

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