Published December 1986 | Version v1
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Strings in general background fields

  • 1. Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin (German Democratic Republic). Sektion Physik

Description

We give a short review of available methods to derive effective actions describing the massless excitations of strings. Special emphasis is given to the β-function approach and to our own investigations of the open string case within this framework. (author)

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the 20. international symposium on the theory of elementary particles
Imprint Pagination
405 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 89-100.
Report number
PHE--86-13

Conference

Title
20. international symposium on the theory of elementary particles.
Dates
13-17 Oct 1986.
Place
Ahrenshoop (German Democratic Republic).