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Boundary Conformal Field Theory and Ribbon Graphs: a tool for open/closed string dualities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We construct and fully characterize a scalar boundary conformal field theory on a triangulated Riemann surface. The results are analyzed from a string theory perspective as tools to deal with open/closed string dualities.

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@article{arxiv.0705.2331,
  title  = {Boundary Conformal Field Theory and Ribbon Graphs: a tool for open/closed string dualities},
  author = {Mauro Carfora and Claudio Dappiaggi and Valeria L. Gili},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.2331},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

40 pages, 7 figures; typos corrected