The partition function of the supersymmetric two-dimensional black hole and little string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 739-773

  Israël, Dan ^a   Kounnas, Costas ^a   Pakman, Ari ^a,b   Troost, Jan ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Black Holes in String Theory; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; String Duality; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044514974     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/06/033     Document Type: Article

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