The plumbing of minimal area surfaces

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(94)90046-9zbMath0860.53005arXivhep-th/9202062MaRDI QIDQ1345107

Barton Zwiebach, Michael Wolf

Publication date: 26 February 1995

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9202062

zbMATH Keywords

plumbing; area-minimizing surfaces; string diagrams; deformations of admissible metrics; quantum closed string field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83E30: String and superstring theories in gravitational theory

53A10: Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature

30F45: Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions)

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

58E12: Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables)

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