On the singularity structure and stability of plane waves

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1663-1686

  Marolf, Donald ^a   Zayas, Leopolde A Pando ^b,c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Holes in String Theory; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044505518     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/076     Document Type: Review

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