Colliding plane wave solutions in string theory revisited

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 331-352

  Chen, Bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Classical Theories of Gravity; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044474824     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/12/016     Document Type: Article

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