Dynamics with infinitely many time derivatives and rolling tachyons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 693-731

  Moeller, Nicolas ^a   Zwiebach, Barton ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; String Field Theory; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044435770     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/10/034     Document Type: Article

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