A mathematical introduction to string theory : variational problems, geometric and probabilistic met...
A mathematical introduction to string theory : variational problems, geometric and probabilistic met...
A mathematical introduction to string theory : variational problems, geometric and probabilistic methods / Sergio Albeverio ... [et al.].
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1997.
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T0386838
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viii, 135 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
I.0. Introduction -- I.1. The two-dimensional Plateau problem -- I.2. Topological and metric structures on the space of mappings and metrics -- Appendix to I.2. ILH-structures -- I.3. Harmonic maps and global structures -- I.4. Cauchy-Riemann operators -- I.5. Zeta-function and heat-kernel determina...
II.5. The Faddeev-Popov procedure for bosonic strings -- II.6. The Polyakov measure in noncritical dimension and the Liouville measure -- II.7. The Polyakov measure in the critical dimension d=26 -- II.8. Correlation functions.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1997.
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England
Date Published
c1997.
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A mathematical introduction to string theory : variational problems, geometric and probabilistic methods / Sergio Albeverio ... [et al.].
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London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 225.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-132) and index.
Transferred from N539.72/26.
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c1997.
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T0386838
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0521556104 (pb)
9780521556101 (pb)
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539.72
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991005554099702626
