Tachyon condensation using the disc partition function

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1-21

  David, Justin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744760544     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/07/009     Document Type: Article

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