Strings in homogeneous gravitational waves and null holography

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 999-1043

  Kiritsis, Elias ^a,b   Pioline, Boris ^c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044493046     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/08/048     Document Type: Article

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