Open string field theory without open strings

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00673-6zbMath0969.81617arXivhep-th/0103085OpenAlexW1995380039MaRDI QIDQ5936331

Washington IV Taylor, Ian T. Ellwood

Publication date: 11 July 2001

Published in: Physics Letters. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0103085

zbMATH Keywords

BRST cohomologyperturbatively stable vacuumphysical open string states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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