Vacuum vertices and the ghost-dilaton

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 471, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 233-245

  Rahman, Sabbir ^a   Zwiebach, Barton ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0030575258     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00179-4     Document Type: Article

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