TWISTED OPEN STRINGS FROM CLOSED STRINGS: THE WZW ORIENTATION ORBIFOLDS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X04018531zbMath1080.81588arXivhep-th/0306014OpenAlexW3125576402MaRDI QIDQ3370275

C. Helfgott, M. B. Halpern

Publication date: 7 February 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306014

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryorbifoldsstring theory

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) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

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