Boundary Conformal Field Theory and the Worldsheet Approach to D-Branes

Andreas Recknagel and Volker Schomerus

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Publication Date:

2014

Number of Pages:

338

Format:

Hardcover

Series:

Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics

Price:

99.00

ISBN:

9780521832236

Category:

Monograph

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Table of Contents

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Introduction
1. Free field theory with boundaries
2. Superstrings and branes
3. Conformal field theory on the plane
4. Boundary conformal field theory
5. Perturbation of boundary conformal field theories
6. The Wess-Zumino-Witten model on SU(2)
7. Gepner model boundary states and Calabi-Yau branes
Appendix. Formulas and identities
Index.

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Mathematical Physics