Tachyons in compact spaces

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1812-1826

  Suyama, Takao ^a  

^a Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Renormalization Group; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444451441     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/065     Document Type: Review

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