Don't panic! Closed string tachyons in ALE spacetimes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2001, Pages

  Adams, Allan ^a,b   Polchinski, Joseph ^a   Silverstein, Eva ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete and finite symmetries; Superstring vacua; Superstrings and heterotic strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744757042     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/10/029     Document Type: Article

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