D-branes as unstable lumps in bosonic open string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages

  Harvey, Jeffrey A ^a   Kraus, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 6944240451     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/04/012     Document Type: Article

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