The boundary state formalism and conformal invariance in off-shell string theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 459-475

  Laidlaw, Mark ^a   Semenoff, Gordon W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; D branes; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044438572     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/11/021     Document Type: Article

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