Closed string tachyons and their implications for non-supersymmetric strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 829-838

  Dine, Michael ^a   Gorbatov, Elie ^a   Klebanov, Igor R ^b,c,d   Krasnitz, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Superstring Vacua; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444447688     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/07/034     Document Type: Article

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