Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 4 (2008), 025, 14 pages      arXiv:0802.3445      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2008.025
Contribution to the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics

Free Field Construction of D-Branes in Rational Models of CFT and Gepner Models

Sergei E. Parkhomenko
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics Chernogolovka, Russia

Received October 30, 2007, in final form February 14, 2008; Published online February 23, 2008

Abstract
This is a review article of my recent papers on free field construction of D-branes in N = 2 superconformal minimal models and Gepner models.

Key words: strings; D-branes; conformal field theory; free field construction; minimal models; Gepner models.

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