String holonomy and extrinsic geometry in four-dimensional topological gauge theory

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 531, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 525-559

  Szabo, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

04.60.d; 11.15. q; 11.25. w; 71.10.p; BF type topological field theory; Canonical quantization; Effective string theory; Generalized Aharonov Bohm effect; Intersection numbers; Motion groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348137150     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00586-0     Document Type: Article

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