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Advances in High Energy Physics
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 493514, 30 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/493514
Review Article

On the Minimal Length Uncertainty Relation and the Foundations of String Theory

Lay Nam Chang, Zachary Lewis, Djordje Minic, and Tatsu Takeuchi

Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

Received 1 June 2011; Accepted 9 August 2011

Academic Editor: Yang-Hui He

Copyright © 2011 Lay Nam Chang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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