Fundamental strings and black holes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Giveon, Amit ^a   Kutasov, David ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Black holes in string theory; Conformal field models in string theory; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947648478     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/071     Document Type: Article

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