Towards a Worldsheet Derivation of the Maldacena Conjecture

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1031, Issue , 2008, Pages 21-42

  Berkovits, Nathan ^a   Vafa, Cumrun ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT Correspondence; Superstrings; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649597237     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2972008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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