The atick-witten free energy, closed tachyon condensation and deformed poincaré symmetry

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 647, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 69-100

  Maggiore, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Quantum groups; Strings at finite temperature; Tachyon condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037164587     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00938-0     Document Type: Article

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