D-branes in curved spacetime: The Nappi-Witten background

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1998, Pages

  Stanciu, Sonia ^a,b   Tseytlin, Arkady ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal field models in string theory; D branes; Sigma models

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645936345     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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