Near Hagedorn dynamics of NS fivebranes or A new universality class of coiled strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 5 PART B, 2000, Pages 20-28

  Berkooz, Micha ^a   Rozali, Moshe ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Holes; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244251797     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/05/040     Document Type: Article

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