The identity string field and the tachyon vacuum

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1-22

  Ellwood, Ian ^a   Feng, Bo ^a   He, Yang Hui ^a   Moeller, Nicolas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; BRST Symmetry; Gauge Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744762509     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/07/016     Document Type: Article

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