A closed string tachyon vacuum?

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Yang, Haitang ^a   Zwiebach, Barton ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; String Field Theory; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044482947     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/09/054     Document Type: Article

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