Oriented open-closed string theory revisited

DOI10.1006/aphy.1998.5803zbMath0914.53046arXivhep-th/9705241OpenAlexW2018814080MaRDI QIDQ1283593

Barton Zwiebach

Publication date: 15 June 1999

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705241

zbMATH Keywords

closed stringsBatalin-Vilkovisky algebraghost-dilaton theoremmoduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfacesstring theory on \(D\)-brane backgrounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81)

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