Open string star as a continuous Moyal product

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 487-513

  Douglas, Michael R ^a,b,c   Liu, Hong ^a   Moore, Gregory ^a   Zwiebach, Barton ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^c ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Non Commutative Geometry; String Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044458115     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/04/022     Document Type: Article

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