Tachyon condensates, carrollian contraction of Lorentz group, and fundamental strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1259-1283

  Gibbons, Gary ^a   Hashimoto, Koji ^b   Yi, Piljin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

D branes; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347343826     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/09/061     Document Type: Article

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