On Witten's instability and winding tachyons

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Dine, Michael ^a   Shomer, Assaf ^a   Sun, Zheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Holes in String Theory; Tachyon Condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846169079     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/013     Document Type: Review

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