The plumbing of minimal area surfaces

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(94)90046-9zbMath0860.53005arXivhep-th/9202062OpenAlexW1986235118MaRDI QIDQ1345107

Michael Wolf, Barton Zwiebach

Publication date: 26 February 1995

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9202062

zbMATH Keywords

plumbingarea-minimizing surfacesstring diagramsdeformations of admissible metricsquantum closed string field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12)

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