Closed bosonic string field theory at quartic order

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 499-520

  Moeller, Nicolas ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; String Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444456050     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/018     Document Type: Article

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