Boundary cft construction of d-branes in vacuum string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1-45

  Rastelli, Leonardo ^a   Sen, Ashoke ^b,c   Zwiebach, Barton ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744739855     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/11/045     Document Type: Article

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