No horizons in pp-waves

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 429-445

  Hubeny, Veronika E ^a   Rangamani, Mukund ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Holes; Classical Theories of Gravity; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044512092     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/11/021     Document Type: Article

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