Notes on (0,2) Superconformal Field Theories
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In these lecture notes, I review the " linear σ-model " approach to (0,2) string vacua. My aim is to provide the reader with a toolkit for studying a very broad class of (0,2) superconformal field theories with the requisite properties to be candidate string vacua.
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تاریخ انتشار 1995