The search for higher symmetry in string theory

DOI10.1098/rsta.1989.0082zbMath0692.53048OpenAlexW2039326062MaRDI QIDQ3034494

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Publication date: 1989

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1989.0082

zbMATH Keywords

string theoryChern-Simons gauge theorytopological quantum field theoriesrational conformal field theories

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) Riemann surfaces (30F99)

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