Renormalizability of the open string sigma model and emergence of D-branes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 7 PART A, 2000, Pages

  Kummer, Wolfgang ^a   Vassilevich, Dmitri V ^b,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bosonic Strings; D branes; Sigma Models

Indexed keywords

EID: 7744240498     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/07/012     Document Type: Article

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