How Bob Laughlin tamed the giant graviton from Taub-NUT space

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Bernevig, Bogdan Andrei ^a   Susskind, Leonard ^a   Toumbas, Nicolaos ^a   Brodie, John H ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

D branes; Non Commutative Geometry; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744849414     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/02/003     Document Type: Article

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