Comments on the thermodynamics of little string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Kutasov, David ^a   Sahakyan, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondance; Black Holes in String Theory; P branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744878152     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/02/021     Document Type: Article

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