CFT description of identity string field: Toward derivation of the VSFT action

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 889-924

  Kishimoto, Isao ^a   Ohmori, Kazuki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; String Field Theory; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044460267     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/05/036     Document Type: Article

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