Evaluation of the one loop string path integral

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Publication:1084719


DOI10.1007/BF01210791zbMath0606.58014MaRDI QIDQ1084719

Joseph Polchinski

Publication date: 1986

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


81S40: Path integrals in quantum mechanics

58D30: Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences


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