Closed and Open Conformal Field Theories and Their Anomalies
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Closed and Open Conformal Field Theories and Their Anomalies
The main purpose of this paper is to give rigorous mathematical foundations for investigating closed and closed/open conformal field theories (CFT’s) and their anomalies. In physics, the topic of closed/open CFT has been extensively discussed in the literature (see e.g. [8, 19, 20, 7]). Our investigation was originally inspired by two sources: Edward Witten (cf. [35]) proposed a general program...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Communications in Mathematical Physics
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0010-3616,1432-0916
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-004-1202-8