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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.

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@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