Some exact results on tachyon condensation in string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 10 PART B, 2000, Pages 11-23

  Kutasov, David ^a   Mariño, Marcos ^b   Moore, Gregory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044229862     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/10/045     Document Type: Article

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