Symmetry breaking boundaries I. General theory

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 558, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 419-483

  Fuchs, Jürgen ^a   Schweigert, Christoph ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Conformal field theory; Simple currents; Symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033547124     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00406-X     Document Type: Article

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