Liouville D-branes in two-dimensional strings and open string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 747-770

  Ghoshal, Debashis ^a,d   Mukhi, Sunil ^b   Murthy, Sameer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Matrix Models; String Field Theory; Topological Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444438880     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/027     Document Type: Article

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