Closed-string tachyons and the Hagedorn transition in AdS space

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1355-1378

  Barbón, José L F ^a,c   Rabinovici, Eliezer ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; Black Holes in String Theory; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044503189     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/03/057     Document Type: Article

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