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Combinatorics of boundaries in string theory

Year: 1994

Type: article

Abstract: We investigate the possibility that stringy nonperturbative effects appear as holes in the world sheet. We focus on the case of Dirichlet string theory, which we argue should be formulated rather differently than in previous work, and we find that the effects of boundaries are naturally weighted by ${\mathit{e}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}\mathit{O}(1/{\mathit{g}}_{\mathrm{st}})}$.

Source: Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.50.r6041

Author: Joseph Polchinski

Institutions: University of California, Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

OpenAlex ID: W2156923669

FWCI: 23.15

Cites: 34

Cited by: 369

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