Topological couplings and contact terms in 2d field theory

DOI10.1007/BF02099493zbMATH Open0726.53069OpenAlexW1999828833MaRDI QIDQ803987FDOQ803987

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

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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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