WZW BRANES AND GERBES

DOI10.1142/S0129055X02001557zbMath1033.81067arXivhep-th/0205233OpenAlexW2042450316MaRDI QIDQ4420471

Nuno Reis, Krzysztof Gawędzki

Publication date: 17 August 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0205233

zbMATH Keywords

orbifoldsclosed surfacesbundle gerbesopen surfacesBoundary confromal field theoryopen string amplitudesstrings in group manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65)

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