Boundary state description of tachyon condensation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 26-36

  Naka, Michihiro ^a   Takayanagi, Tadashi ^a   Uesugi, Tadaoki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes; Superstrings and Heterotic Strings

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044260974     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/06/007     Document Type: Article

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