Penrose limits, deformed pp-waves and the string duals of N = 1 large-N gauge theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 165-202

  Brecher, Dominic ^a   Johnson, Clifford V ^a   Lovis, Kenneth J ^a   Myers, Robert C ^b,c,d  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; Penrose limit and pp wave background; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044513530     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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