WZW branes and gerbes

Reviews in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1281-1334

  Gawȩdzki, Krzysztof ^a   Reis, Nuno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Boundary confromal field theory; Strings in group manifolds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036967828     PISSN: 0129055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129055X02001557     Document Type: Article

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