Static cosmic strings on S2 and criticality

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 453, Issue 1958, 1997, Pages 581-591

  Yang, Yisong ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4544332333     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1997.0032     Document Type: Article

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