Strings from quivers, membranes from moose

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 567-595

  Mukhi, Sunil ^a,b   Rangamani, Mukund ^c   Verlinde, Erik ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

M Theory; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044503200     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/05/023     Document Type: Article

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