Universality of the tachyon potential

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 1999, Pages

  Sen, Ashoke ^a  

^a HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; D branes; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646024926     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/12/027     Document Type: Article

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