Boundary conformal field theories on random surfaces and the non-critical open string

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00446-4zbMath0925.81206arXivhep-th/9605097OpenAlexW2003363806WikidataQ127391138 ScholiaQ127391138MaRDI QIDQ1923544

Rui Neves, Paul R. W. Mansfield

Publication date: 8 October 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605097

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet boundary conditionsNeumann boundary conditionsLiouville fieldFeynman mass critical exponentPolyakov bosonic stringWeyl anomaly cancellationYang Mills critical exponent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Cites Work

• Evaluation of the one loop string path integral
• The quantum strip: Liouville theory for open strings
• First quantized noncritical relativistic Polyakov string.
• EQUIVALENCE OF LIOUVILLE THEORY AND 2-D QUANTUM GRAVITY

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