Does Superstring Theory Have a Conformally Invariant Limit?
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This talk describes a proposal, due to Hull, for a conformally invariant limit of superstring theory in six dimensions. Talk presented at the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG9) Work supported in part by the U.S. Dept. of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG03-92-ER40701.
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