Cubic string field theory in pp-wave background and background independent Moyal structure

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 43-52

  Chu, Chong Sun ^a   Ho, Pei Ming ^b   Lin, Feng Li ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Penrose limit and pp wave background; String Field Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044506546     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/09/003     Document Type: Article

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