The heat flow for the full bosonic string
Differential Geometry
2016-11-24 v2 Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
math.MP
Abstract
We study harmonic maps from surfaces coupled to a scalar and a two-form potential, which arise as critical points of the action of the full bosonic string. We investigate several analytic and geometric properties of these maps and prove an existence result by the heat flow method.
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@article{arxiv.1510.08758,
title = {The heat flow for the full bosonic string},
author = {Volker Branding},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.08758},
year = {2016}
}