Effective action and tension renormalization for cosmic and fundamental strings

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 432, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 51-57

  Buonanno, Alessandra ^a   Damour, Thibault ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

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EID: 0346364435     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00609-1     Document Type: Article

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