Comments on Schnabl's analytic solution for tachyon condensation in Witten's open string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Okawa, Yuji ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; String Field Theory; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646402898     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/04/055     Document Type: Article

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