Geometrical interpretation of d-branes in gauged wzw models

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1-62

  Maldacena, Juan ^a   Seiberg, Nathan ^a   Moore, Gregory ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal and W Symmetry; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; D branes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744750556     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/07/046     Document Type: Article

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