A BASIC CLASS OF TWISTED OPEN WZW STRINGS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X04019421zbMath1092.81525arXivhep-th/0402108MaRDI QIDQ4673656

C. Helfgott, M. B. Halpern

Publication date: 9 May 2005

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0402108

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theory; orbifold; affine Lie algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

81R10: Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

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