Gauge theory description of compactified pp-waves

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 313-376

  Bertolini, Matteo ^a   De Boer, Jan ^b   Harmark, Troels ^c   Imeroni, Emiliano ^d   Obers, Niels A ^e  

^a NORDITA   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Penrose limit and pp wave background; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044464787     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/016     Document Type: Article

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