Survey of the tachyonic lump in bosonic string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1-27

  Ohmori, Kazuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; D branes; Gauge Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745012139     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/08/011     Document Type: Article

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