Tachyon potentials, star products and universality

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2001, Pages

  Rastelli, Leonardo ^a   Zwiebach, Barton ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Conformal and W Symmetry; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744837955     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/09/038     Document Type: Article

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