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Conformal boundary conditions and 3D topological field theory

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 نشر من قبل Christoph Schweigert
 تاريخ النشر 2001
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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Topological field theory in three dimensions provides a powerful tool to construct correlation functions and to describe boundary conditions in two-dimensional conformal field theories.

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