A solvable toy model for tachyon condensation in string field theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 9 PART B, 2000, Pages 1-23

  Zwiebach, Barton ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; D branes; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044235779     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/09/028     Document Type: Article

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