String interactions in gravitational wave backgrounds

DOI10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.09.020zbMath1097.81712arXivhep-th/0305081OpenAlexW2093079341MaRDI QIDQ1413531

Elias Kiritsis, Giuseppe D'appollonio

Publication date: 16 November 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0305081

zbMATH Keywords

non-compact conformal field theoryNS-supported pp-wave backgroundstree-level covariant scattering amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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