Closed strings from nothing

Physical Review D

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2001, Pages

  Kleban, Matthew ^a   Lawrence, Albion ^a,b   Shenker, Stephen ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; TENSION; THEORY;

EID: 4244150844     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.64.066002     Document Type: Article

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