Things fall apart: Topology change from winding tachyons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 10, 2005, Pages 847-882

  Adams, Allan ^a   Liu, Xiao ^b   McGreevy, John ^b   Saltman, Alex ^b   Silverstein, Eva ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Renormalization Group; Sigma Models; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544497470     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/033     Document Type: Article

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