Localized tachyon condensation and G-parity conservation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1377-1388

  Lee, Sunggeun ^a   Sin, Sang Jin ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144453234     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/01/054     Document Type: Article

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