Off-shell interactions for closed-string tachyons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1161-1192

  Dabholkar, Atish ^b,c,d   Iqubal, Ashik ^d   Raeymaekers, Joris ^a  

^a Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144471538     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/051     Document Type: Article

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