Gödel, Penrose, anti-Mach: Extra supersymmetries of time-dependent plane waves

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1707-1724

  Blau, Matthias ^a   Meessen, Patrick ^a   O'Loughlin, Martin ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

M Theory; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144431737     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/072     Document Type: Article

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