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Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 76 No. 6 (1986) pp. 1379-1389

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Can the Membrane Be a Unification Model?

Keiji Kikkawa and Masami Yamasaki

Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560

(Received August 15, 1986)

Abstract:

Whether a membrane model can generate massless particles in the spectrum is studied by calculating the Casimir energy.


URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/76/1379/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.76.1379

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  3. Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No.114 (1993) pp. 185-199 :
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