Strings in a time-dependent orbifold

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1059-1081

  Liu, Hong ^a   Moore, Gregory ^a   Seiberg, Nathan ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044473578     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/06/045     Document Type: Article

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