N = 2 superconformal description of superstring in Ramond-Ramond plane wave backgrounds

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1327-1341

  Berkovits, Nathan ^a   Maldacena, Juan ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Penrose limit and pp wave background; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

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EID: 23044455266     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/10/059     Document Type: Article

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