STABLE NON-BPS STATES IN STRING THEORY: A PEDAGOGICAL REVIEW

DOI10.1142/S0217751X00000380zbMath0963.81064arXivhep-th/9905006MaRDI QIDQ4951672

Alberto Lerda, Rodolfo Russo

Publication date: 8 July 2001

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9905006

zbMATH Keywords

tachyon condensationheterotic/type I dualitysolitonic kink configurationtype I theorytype IIBunstable bound state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02)

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