D-branes in a big bang/big crunch universe: Misner space

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 9, 2005, Pages 583-627

  Hikida, Yasuaki ^a   Nayak, Rashmi R ^b   Panigrahi, Kamal L ^b  

^a HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044465232     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/09/023     Document Type: Article

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