Strings on pp-waves and massive two dimensional field theories

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 949-970

  Maldacena, Juan ^a   Maoz, Liat ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrable Field Theories; Penrose limit and pp wave background; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044483860     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/12/046     Document Type: Article

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