Normalisation of the background independent open string field theory action

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1-7

  Ghoshal, Debashis ^a   Sen, Ashoke ^a  

^a HARISH CHANDRA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; Conformal Field Models in String Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044272897     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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