Boundary description of planckian scattering in curved spacetimes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1-32

  Arcioni, Giovanni ^a   Haro, Sebastian de ^b   O’loughlin, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondance; Black Holes; Models of Quantum Gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744734356     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/07/035     Document Type: Article

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