WZW-like action for heterotic string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1053-1075

  Berkovits, Nathan ^a   Okawa, Yuji ^b   Zwiebach, Barton ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

String Field Theory; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044499007     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/038     Document Type: Article

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