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Stringy Higgs Mechanism and the Fate of Open Strings
Anton A. Gerasimov, Samson L. Shatashvili
We propose a refinement of the physical picture describing different vacua in bosonic string theory. The vacua with closed strings and open strings are connected by the string fiel…
hep-th2000★ 258 cited
On Exact Tachyon Potential in Open String Field Theory
Anton A. Gerasimov, Samson L. Shatashvili
In these notes we revisit the tachyon lagrangian in the open string field theory using background independent approach of Witten from 1992. We claim that the tree level lagrangian…