String theory on parallelizable PP-waves

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 111-145

  Sadri, Darius ^a,b   Sheikh Jabbari, Mohammad M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT and dS CFT Correspondence; D branes; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144450590     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/06/005     Document Type: Article

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