Open strings in exactly solvable model of curved spacetime and pp-wave limit

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 265-293

  Takayanagi, Hiromitsu ^a   Takayanagi, Tadashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044507505     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/05/012     Document Type: Article

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