Heterotic string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1025-1040

  Okawa, Yuji ^a   Zwiebach, Barton ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

String Field Theory; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044472372     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/07/042     Document Type: Article

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