Vanishing scalar invariant spacetimes in supergravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Coley, Alan ^a   Fuster, Andrea ^b   Hervik, Sigbjorn ^a   Pelavas, Nicos ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Penrose limit and pp wave background; Supergravity models

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547573438     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/032     Document Type: Article

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