Renormalization group analysis of tachyon condensation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1-36

  Dasgupta, Satabhisa ^a   Dasgupta, Tathagata ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744531907     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/06/007     Document Type: Article

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