Membranes at quantum criticality

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Hoava, Petr ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic strings; Classical theories of gravity; Models of quantum gravity; P branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649559774     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/020     Document Type: Article

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