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hep-th1992★ 7 cited
On the Breakdown of Perturbation Theory
C. Bachas
The production of o(1/g^2) particles in a weakly-coupled theory is believed to be non-perturbatively suppressed. I comment on the prospects of (a) establishing this rigorously, and…
hep-th1992★ 239 cited
Pair Creation of Open Strings in an Electric Field
C. Bachas, M. Porrati
We calculate exactly the rate of pair production of open bosonic and supersymmetric strings in a constant electric field. The rate agrees with Schwinger's classic result in the wea…
hep-th1992★ 39 cited
Topological Models on the Lattice and a Remark on String Theory Cloning
Costas Bachas, Marios Petropoulos
The addition of a topological model to the matter content of a conventional closed-string theory leads to the appearance of many perturbatively-decoupled space-time worlds. We illu…