Published March 30, 1987
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Journal article
Perturbative stability of smooth strings
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