Topological couplings and contact terms in 2d field theory

DOI10.1007/BF02099493MaRDI QIDQ803987zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jacques Distler, P. A. Nelson

Publication date 1991

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02099493

zbMATH Keywords

string theorytopological quantum field theorycontact termsdilaton-type operatorsstable-curve compactification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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• Closed string theory without level-matching at the free level
• Chiral rings and physical states in \(c<1\) string theory
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• The closed string field theory action vanishes

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