String field theory and tachyon condensation

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Ellwood, Ian Thomas, 1977-
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
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Washington Taylor.
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Abstract
In this thesis I discuss various aspects of Witten's cubic string field theory. After a brief review of the basics of string field theory we begin by showing how string field theory can be used to check certain conjectures about the tachyon vacuum. We then discuss the problem of trying to globally gauge fix string field theory. We end with a discussion of various results in the quantization of the theory.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2004.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-142).
 
Date issued
2004
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29455
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Physics.
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