Tachyon condensation and black strings

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2293-2309

  Horowitz, Gary T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Holes in String Theory; p branes; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944519617     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/08/091     Document Type: Article

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