CANONICAL COVARIANT FORMALISM FOR DIRAC–NAMBU–GOTO BOSONIC p-BRANES AND THE GAUSS–BONNET TOPOLOGICAL TERM IN STRING THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X06033167zbMath1113.81107arXivmath-ph/0411070MaRDI QIDQ3422268

Alberto Escalante

Publication date: 9 February 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0411070

zbMATH Keywords

symplectic geometry; quantization; string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

81S10: Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods

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