Abelian and nonabelian vector field effective actions from string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1099-1141

  Coletti, Erasmo ^a   Sigalov, Ilya ^a   Taylor, Washington ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144449766     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/050     Document Type: Article

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