Publication:919641

DOI10.1007/BF02096756zbMath0707.53058OpenAlexW2040780889MaRDI QIDQ919641

Steven Carlip, Minot Clements, Stephen DellaPietra, Vincent Della Pietra

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02096756

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryPolyakov amplitudessewing problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

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