D-branes as tachyon lumps in string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 8 PART B, 2000, Pages 15-31

  Moeller, Nicolas ^a   Zwiebach, Barton ^a   Sen, Ashoke ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 6944226713     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/039     Document Type: Article

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