On surface states and star-subalgebras in string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 39-77

  Fuchs, Ehud ^a   Kroyter, Michael ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; String Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044443936     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/004     Document Type: Article

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