Published March 30, 1987 | Version v1
Journal article

Perturbative stability of smooth strings

  • 1. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510

Description

Polyakov's theory of surfaces embedded in Euclidean space-time with an extrinsic curvature term is stable under small fluctuations only if the number of dimensions is positive and less than 26

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
58
Journal Issue
13
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
1300-1303
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
18058491
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
DIMENSIONS; EIGENVALUES; FLUCTUATIONS; SPACE-TIME; STABILITY; STRING MODELS; SURFACES
Descriptors DEC
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; VARIATIONS