Quantum background independence of closed-string field theory

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90145-7zbMath0925.53041arXivhep-th/9311009OpenAlexW2095049190MaRDI QIDQ5906592

Barton Zwiebach, Ashoke Sen

Publication date: 14 October 1994

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9311009

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

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