The nonperturbative closed string tachyon vacuum to high level

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Moeller, Nicolas ^a   Yang, Haitang ^b,c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Bosonic strings; String field theory; Tachyon condensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247884474     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/04/009     Document Type: Article

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