Can free strings propagate across plane wave singularities?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Craps, Ben ^a   De Roo, Frederik ^a,b   Evnin, Oleg ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL SOLVAY INSTITUTES   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

M(atrix) Theories; Penrose limit and pp wave background

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650234220     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/105     Document Type: Article

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