Plane waves with weak singularities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1477-1497

  David, Justin R ^a  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044482302     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/11/064     Document Type: Article

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