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Conformal field theory for the superstring in a Ramond-Ramond plane wave background

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A quantizable worldsheet action is constructed for the superstring in a super-symmetric plane wave background with Ramond-Ramond flux. The action is manifestly invariant under all isometries of the background and is an exact worldsheet conformal field theory. © SISSA/ISAS 2002.

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Penrose limit and pp-wave background, Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

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English

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Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 6, n. 4, p. 927-938, 2002.

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