Boundary states for D-branes with traveling waves

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 669-695

  Hikida, Yasuaki ^a   Takayanagi, Hiromitsu ^a   Takayanagi, Tadashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044442787     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/04/032     Document Type: Article

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