On smooth time-dependent orbifolds and null singularities

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1079-1099

  Fabinger, Michal ^a   McGreevy, John ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23144454689     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/06/042     Document Type: Article

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