Spacetime energy decreases under world-sheet RG flow

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1587-1606

  Gutperle, Michael ^a,d   Headrick, Matthew ^b   Minwalla, Shiraz ^b   Schomerus, Volker ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Renormalization Group; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044455321     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/073     Document Type: Article

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