QUANTUM GEOMETRODYNAMICS OF THE OPEN TOPOLOGICAL MEMBRANE AND STRING MODULI SPACE

被引:15
作者
CARLIP, S [1 ]
KOGAN, Y [1 ]
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[1] MOSCOW THEORET & EXPTL PHYS INST,MOSCOW 117259,USSR
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.1487
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We show that by coupling a three-dimensional Chern-Simons theory to (2+1)-dimensional gravity through an arbitrarily small F2 term, one can obtain integrals of conformal-field-theory amplitudes over moduli space. The conformal anomaly appears as an induced gravitational Chern-Simons term. String-theory amplitudes can thus be obtained from three dimensions. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:1487 / 1490
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