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Derivation of the string equation of motion in general relativity

Metin GürsesPhysics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520Feza GürseyPhysics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
1975en
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It is shown that the equation of motion for a Nambu string in curved space can be derived from the gravitational field equation following the method of Einstein, Infeld, and Hoffmann.Received 30 October 1974DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.11.967©1975 American Physical Society

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