Removing singularities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 377-395

  Elitzur, Shmuel ^a   Giveon, Amit ^a   Rabinovici, Eliezer ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Conformal Field Models in String Theory

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EID: 23044456270     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/017     Document Type: Article

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