| dc.contributor.advisor | Washington Taylor. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Ellwood, Ian Thomas, 1977- | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-10-14T20:38:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-10-14T20:38:59Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2004 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29455 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2004. | en_US |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-142). | en_US |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Ian Thomas Ellwood. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 142 p. | en_US |
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| dc.format.extent | 9433284 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.rights | M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 | |
| dc.subject | Physics. | en_US |
| dc.title | String field theory and tachyon condensation | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 56211623 | en_US |
