Some Issues in Conformal Field Theory with Boundaries and Crosscaps
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-07-19 v2
Abstract
This is a brief introduction to the subject of Conformal Field Theory on surfaces with boundaries and crosscaps, which describes the perturbative expansion of open string theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0212348,
title = {Some Issues in Conformal Field Theory with Boundaries and Crosscaps},
author = {Beatriz Gato-Rivera},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0212348},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Invited talk given at the Conference `Conformal Field Theory and Integrable Systems', held by Landau Institute, Russia, September 15-21, 2002. Latex, 6 pages Some references added